Middle Bronze Age I
Red Polished Ladle Bowl
Pottery bowl or ladle/dipper in Red Polished III ware; handmade; hemispherical body, an inturned rim and a round base; high vertical loop handle rising from rim to mid-body; made of buff clay with burnished surfaced, fired red with some patches of black mottling; rurface worn in places and handle repaired. Dimensions: Height: 14 centimetres Object Type: bowl; dipper; ladle Ware: Red Polished Ware Series: Stewart Type (XXII B type e); Red Polished III Techniques: handmade; slipped; polished
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Shape
- Bowl
- Material
- Clay
- Place of production
- Cyprus
- Date
- 1950 - 1750 BC
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