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Red Polished Mottled Bowl, Middle Bronze Age I Cypriot
Red Polished Mottled Bowl, Middle Bronze Age I Cypriot, c. 1900–1800 BC. British Museum, 1884,1210.112.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Middle Bronze Age I

Red Polished Mottled Bowl

Pottery bowl in Red Polished ware or possibly Red Polished Mottled ware; handmade; hemispherical body on a rounded base, inturned rim; single loop handle rising from just below the rim, small projection from rim below the handle. Made of red clay with burnished surface, fired red and black, the latter a deliberate mottling effect. Dimensions: Diameter: 13.50 centimetres; Height: 13.50 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: Red Polished Ware (RP III) Series: Stewart Type (XIII L d1 variety a) Techniques: handmade; polished

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Red Polished ware
Shape
BowlHemispherical bowl
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

Identifiers

Accession no.
1884,1210.112, British Museum · Museum record

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