White Painted Bowl - image 1

Middle Bronze Age II

White Painted Bowl

Pottery bowl of White Painted ware Fine Line style; hand-made; short neck leading to everted rim; globular body with rounded base; two holes on opposite sides are pierced through the body, just below the rim; matt reddish buff self-slip; decorated with geometric patterns in reddish brown to black paint including double horizontal band and wavy line on rim interior and quardruple horizontal band on neck exterior; body is decorated with a hatched zig-zag band interspersed with encircled dots, a double framed wavy line band at maximum diameter and diagonal horizontal lines on the base; fabric reddish buff; small chip on base. Dimensions: Diameter: 11.20 centimetres; Height: 6.70 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: White Painted Ware Techniques: handmade; self-slip; painted

Date

1900 - 1650 BC

Accession No.

2001,0423.12

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Found/Acquired: Cyprus