White Painted Kyathos Bowl
Description: | 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 |
Period: | Middle Bronze Age III |
Date: | 1800 - 1650 BC |
Collection: | British Museum |
Provenance: | Phoenikiais |
Accession Number: | 1884,1210.97 |