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Black Polished Incised Bowl, Middle Bronze Age I Cypriot
Black Polished Incised Bowl, Middle Bronze Age I Cypriot, c. 1950–1750 BC. British Museum, 1980,1126.7.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Middle Bronze Age I

Black Polished Incised Bowl

Pottery bowl in Black Polished ware; hand-made; hemispherical body with a rounded base; three simple feet; three lugs on the rim; pointed boss in the centre of the interior; made of buff clay fired black throughout the vessel, with a lustrous surface; decorated with incised bands and zig-zags filled with white lime. Dimensions: Diameter: 10.80 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: Black Polished Series: Black Polished I; Stewart Type XIII I Techniques: incised

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Black Polished ware
Shape
BowlHemispherical bowl
Decoration techniques
Incised, IncisedIncised and white-filled
Motifs
Bands and lines, Zigzags and chevrons
Material
Clay
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Bellapais-Vounous
Date
1950 - 1750 BC

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Accession No.

1980,1126.7

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Vounous

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