Early Bronze Age III
Red Polished Bowl
Pottery bowl in Red Polished (Black Topped) ware; hand-made; hemispherical body on a rounded base; pierced lug at rim; made of buff clay covered with a polished slip, fired orange-red in the lower body and black in the upper part (inside and out); parts of rim missing in several pieces; surface pitted and worn. Dimensions: Diameter: 15.20 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: Red Polished Ware Series: Red Polished I-II (north coast) Techniques: pierced
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Material
- Clay
- Place of production
- Cyprus
- Findspot
- Bellapais-Vounous
- Date
- 2100 - 1900 BC
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