Red Polished Cooking Pot

Red Polished Cooking Pot

Description:

Pottery storage jar ('cooking pot') of Red Polished III coarse ware; handmade; globular body with rounded base and wide flaring neck with slightly everted rim; two round vertical handles from rim to shoulder, one rising slightly above the rim; yellow-buff clay with darker slip; repaired.


Dimensions: Height: 14.50 centimetres


Object Type: jar; cooking-pot


Ware: Red Polished Ware (RP III (coarse ware))


Series: Stewart Type (VIII B g2, variety a)


Techniques: handmade

Period:

Early Bronze Age III

Date:

2100 - 1750 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais (?)

Alambra (?)

Accession Number:

1884,1210.65