Red Polished Basin Rim

Red Polished Basin Rim

Description:

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

Period:

Middle Bronze Age I

Date:

2000 - 1750 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais (?)

Alambra (?)

Accession Number:

1884,1210.76