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White Painted Kyathos Bowl, Middle Bronze Age III Cypriot
White Painted Kyathos Bowl, Middle Bronze Age III Cypriot, c. 1800–1650 BC. British Museum, 1884,1210.97.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Middle Bronze Age III

White Painted Kyathos Bowl

Pottery bowl or dipper (kyathos) in White Painted ware; hand-made; conical body with a flattened base; high vertical wish-bone handle ending in a schematically modelled human head wearing a cap; very thin, fine buff clay, similar coloured slip, decorated in dark red-black paint: body has a chequer-board of plain and hatched lozenges and latticed triangles, framed by indented vertical panels of arrow-heads; double zig-zags on the handle; zig-zags and vertical lines on the interior. Dimensions: Height: 15.24 centimetres Object Type: kyathos; bowl Ware: White Painted Ware Series: White Painted Latticed Diamond Style (SCE type Ia) Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped; hand-modelled

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Bronze Age)
Shape
Bowl
Decoration techniques
Painted, Relief and appliedModelled figures and attachments
Motifs
Lattice and checkerboard, Triangles and lozenges, Human figure
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeMiddle Cypriot (Middle Bronze Age)
Date
1800 - 1650 BC
Place of production
Cyprus

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Phoenikiais

Identifiers

Accession no.
1884,1210.97, British Museum · Museum record

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