Red Polished Milk Bowl

Red Polished Milk Bowl

Description:

Spouted pottery bowl ('milk bowl') in Red Polished III ware; handmade; deep globular body with incurving rim and round base; tubular side-spout at the rim opposite a broken handle; light red clay with a light red slip, worn and accreted, with some blackening at the base.


Dimensions: Height: 7.50 centimetres


Object Type: cup


Ware: Red Polished Ware


Series: Stewart Type (X C a1 (?)); Red Polished III


Techniques: handmade; slipped; polished

Period:

Middle Bronze Age II

Date:

1850 - 1650 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais

Accession Number:

1884,1210.71