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
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Shape
- Bowl
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- probablyBronze AgeMiddle Cypriot (Middle Bronze Age)
- Date
- 1800 - 1750 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
Collection
Provenance
- Phoenikiais
Identifiers
- Accession no.
- 1884,1210.177, British Museum · Museum record
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