White Painted Bowl

White Painted Bowl

Description:

Pottery deep bowl in White Painted IV ware; globular body with round base, short neck and everted rim; high vertical loop handle from rim to shoulder; buff clay with buff slip and ghosting of previous painted decoration which consited of encircling lines on the rim, a framed row of hatched triangles on the shoulder, wavy line near base and circle with dot in centre on the base; clay pale buff, powdery; most probably eastern Cypriot.


Dimensions: Height: 7.50 centimetres


Object Type: bowl


Ware: White Painted Ware


Series: White Painted IV (SCE type III g or k)


Techniques: painted; handmade; slipped

Period:

Middle Bronze Age II

Date:

1850 - 1650 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais (?)

Alambra (?)

Accession Number:

1884,1210.93