Red Polished Ladle Bowl

Red Polished Ladle Bowl

Description:

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

Period:

Middle Bronze Age I

Date:

1950 - 1750 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais

Accession Number:

1884,1210.96