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