White Painted Bowl

White Painted Bowl

Description:

Pottery bowl in White Painted IV ware; handmade; hemispherical bowl with one horizontal handle (broken); decorated inside and out with pale buff slip and brownish red paint; inside surface is painted with parallel line crossing at right angles with 'eyes' in each quadrant; the outside decoration includes hatched triangles, parallel lines and wavy-lines.


Dimensions: Diameter: 12 centimetres; Height: 6.50 centimetres


Object Type: bowl


Ware: White Painted Ware


Series: White Painted IV (SCE type IAa)


Techniques: painted; handmade

Period:

Middle Bronze Age II

Date:

1900 - 1700 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais

Accession Number:

1884,1210.100