White Painted Bowl - image 1

Middle Bronze Age III

White Painted Bowl

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

Date

1800 - 1650 BC

Accession No.

1884,1210.94

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Phoenikiais