Red Polished Relief Bowl

Red Polished Relief Bowl

Description:

Pottery rim sherd from a large Red Polished ware basin (similar to, e.g. GR 1908,6-8.1); handmade; relief band with two impressed circles and traces of a handle on on left side; made of buff-red clay with a burnished surface inside and out.


Dimensions: Height: 10.20 centimetres max ; Length: 15.50 centimetres max. ; Thickness: 0.90 centimetres


Object Type: bowl


Ware: Red Polished Ware


Series: Red Polished III (?); Stewart Type (X B b)


Techniques: handmade; slipped

Period:

Early Bronze Age III

Date:

2100 - 1900 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais (?)

Alambra (?)

Accession Number:

1884,1210.75