Red Polished Bowl

Red Polished Bowl

Description:

Pottery bowl in Red Polished or possibly Red Polished Mottled ware; handmade; hemispherical body on a rounded base, inverted rim; horizontal loop handle placed just below the rim and set diagonally, small projection on rim under the handle. Made of reddish clay with a burnished surface fired red (though possibly slipped); incised zig-zag pattern round the rim and handle; body cracked and broken with the handle restored, with some mottling on the surface, possibly deliberate.


Dimensions: Diameter: 13 centimetres bowl ; Height: 11.50 centimetres


Object Type: bowl


Ware: Red Polished Ware ((or Red Polished Mottled))


Series: Stewart Type (Class XIII L type d2); Red Polished IV ((or Red Polished Mottled))


Techniques: handmade; incised; slipped; polished

Period:

Middle Bronze Age III

Date:

1800 - 1650 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais

Accession Number:

1884,1210.109