White Painted Bowl

White Painted Bowl

Description:

Pottery bowl in White Painted IV ware; handmade; shallow, roughly hemispherical body with a flattened base and a single vertical handle rising above the rim; buff clay with a worn white-buff slip, decorated with dark brown paint (now much faded): band of four parallel zig-zags on the outside surface, with groups of three lines intersecting at right angles on the base, band around the interior rim.


Dimensions: Height: 4.50 centimetres


Object Type: bowl


Ware: White Painted Ware


Series: White Painted IV (SCE type I A a)


Techniques: painted; handmade; slipped

Period:

Middle Bronze Age III

Date:

1800 - 1650 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais

Accession Number:

1884,1210.94