Red Polished Tripod Cooking Pot

Red Polished Tripod Cooking Pot

Description:

Tripod cooking pot in Red Polished III ware; handmade; depressed ovoid body, with flaring rim and three stump-feet; two round handles from rim to shoulder with one broken away; coarse brown clay with brown slip; very worn with incomplete sides and rim and blackened from use;


Dimensions: Diameter: 8.50 centimetres; Height: 12.50 centimetres


Object Type: cooking-pot


Ware: Red Polished Ware (RP III equivalent)


Series: Stewart Type (VIII C a2 (poss. var. a))


Techniques: handmade; slipped; polished

Period:

Middle Bronze Age I

Date:

1900 - 1800 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais

Accession Number:

1884,1210.63