Red Polished Bowl

Red Polished Bowl

Description:

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

Period:

Middle Bronze Age II

Date:

1800 - 1750 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais

Accession Number:

1884,1210.177