Black Slip II Wish-Bone Bowl

Black Slip II Wish-Bone Bowl

Description:

Pottery bowl in Black Slip II ware; handmade; hemispherical body with rounded base and slightly everted rim; a horizontal wish-bone handle set below the rim and rising slightly above it; buff clay with dark brown slip inside and out, but very worn in places; segment missing on the rim.


Dimensions: Diameter: 9.50 centimetres; Height: 7 centimetres


Object Type: bowl


Ware: Black Slip Ware


Series: Black Slip II (SCE type I A b)


Techniques: handmade; slipped

Period:

Middle Bronze Age II

Date:

1850 - 1650 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais

Accession Number:

1884,1210.101