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Red Polished Basin Rim, Middle Bronze Age I Cypriot basin and tray
Red Polished Basin Rim, Middle Bronze Age I Cypriot, c. 2000–1750 BC. British Museum, 1884,1210.76.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Middle Bronze Age I

Red Polished Basin Rim

Pottery rim sherd from a large Red Polished ware basin; handmade; horizontal lug at the rim, pierced twice; made of fairly coarse orange clay with traces of orange self slip, originally burnished. Object Type: vessel; bowl Ware: Red Polished Ware Series: Red Polished III (?) Techniques: handmade; pierced; burnished

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Red Polished ware
Shape
Basin and tray
Material
Clay
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Alambra
Date
2000 - 1750 BC

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Accession No.

1884,1210.76

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Phoenikiais (?)
  • Alambra (?)

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