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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

Date

2100 - 1850 BC

Accession No.

1888,0927.18

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Ayia Paraskevi