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White Painted Bowl, Middle Bronze Age II Cypriot, White Painted III
White Painted Bowl, Middle Bronze Age II Cypriot, White Painted III, c. 1850–1650 BC. British Museum, 1884,1210.201.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Middle Bronze Age II

White Painted Bowl

Pottery deep bowl in White Painted Ware ware; handmade; squat globular body with round base and a wide mouth with everted rim; rising vertical handle from rim to shoulder; purple hatched triangles. Dimensions: Height: 5.20 centimetres Object Type: jug Ware: White Painted Ware Series: White Painted III; SCE type (WP III, II b) Techniques: painted

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Bronze Age)White Painted III (Bronze Age)
Shape
Bowl
Decoration
Painted
Motif
Triangles and lozenges
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeMiddle Cypriot (Middle Bronze Age)
Date
1850 - 1650 BC
Place of production
Cyprus

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Phoenikiais

Identifiers

Accession no.
1884,1210.201, British Museum · Museum record

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