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White Painted Lattice Bowl, Middle Bronze Age I Cypriot
White Painted Lattice Bowl, Middle Bronze Age I Cypriot, c. 1950–1650 BC. British Museum, 1884,1210.53.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Middle Bronze Age I

White Painted Lattice Bowl

Pottery deep spouted bowl in White Painted Latticed Diamond Style; handmade; globular body on a rounded base with a wide neck and a short everted rim; high vertical handle rising from rim to shoulder opposite tubular spout; slipped buff clay with buff slip and brown painted decoration of a checkerboard lattice pattern on the body and zigzags on the rim. Dimensions: Height: 10.20 centimetres Object Type: jug Ware: White Painted Ware Series: White Painted Latticed Diamond Style (SCE type IIa) Techniques: painted; slipped; handmade

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Bronze Age)
Shape
BowlSpouted bowl
Style
Latticed Diamond Style
Decoration
Painted
Motif
Lattice and checkerboard
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeMiddle Cypriot (Middle Bronze Age)
Date
1950 - 1650 BC
Place of production
Cyprus

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Phoenikiais

Identifiers

Accession no.
1884,1210.53, British Museum · Museum record

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