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Red Polished Tripod Cooking Pot, Middle Bronze Age I Cypriot, Red Polished III
Red Polished Tripod Cooking Pot, Middle Bronze Age I Cypriot, Red Polished III, c. 1900–1800 BC. British Museum, 1884,1210.63.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Middle Bronze Age I

Red Polished Tripod Cooking Pot

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

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Red Polished wareRed Polished III
Shape
JarCooking pot
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeMiddle Cypriot (Middle Bronze Age)
Date
1900 - 1800 BC
Place of production
Cyprus

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Phoenikiais

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Accession no.
1884,1210.63, British Museum · Museum record

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