Red Polished Bowl - image 1

Middle Bronze Age II

Red Polished Bowl

Pottery bowl in Red Polished ware; hand-made; wide body with a rounded base and flaring sides; two opposing ledge handles, above which are pairs of lugs with two more pairs on other two sides of the bowl. Made of buff-orange clay with a burnished surface, fired reddish-brown (possibly slipped). Dimensions: Height: 7 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: Red Polished Ware Series: Stewart Type (Part 4, p. 81. XV D type r); Red Polished III (probably) Techniques: pierced; handmade; burnished

Date

1800 - 1750 BC

Accession No.

1884,1210.177

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Phoenikiais