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Black Polished Bowl, Early Bronze Age III Cypriot
Black Polished Bowl, Early Bronze Age III Cypriot, c. 2100–1850 BC. British Museum, 1888,0927.18.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Early Bronze Age III

Black Polished Bowl

Pottery bowl in Black Polished ware; hand-made; hemispherical body on a rounded base; slightly incurving rim; pierced lug just below rim; made of fairly coarse gritty clay, and covered with a polished slip fired black throughout the body; decorated with incised motifs filled with lime: groups of oblique strokes between parallel lines on upper part of body, hatched zig-zags and triangles on the lower body, concentrics on the base. Dimensions: Diameter: 10.60 centimetres; Height: 5.70 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: Black Polished Ware Series: Stewart Type (XIII F 3a a1) Techniques: pierced; incised; handmade; slipped

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Black Polished ware
Shape
BowlHemispherical bowl
Decoration techniques
Incised, IncisedIncised and white-filled
Material
Clay
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Nicosia-Ayia Paraskevi
Date
2100 - 1850 BC

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Ayia Paraskevi

Identifiers

Accession no.
1888,0927.18, British Museum · Museum record

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