Middle Bronze Age III
Red Polished Bowl
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
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Decoration
- Incised
- Motif
- Zigzags and chevrons
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- probablyBronze AgeMiddle Cypriot (Middle Bronze Age)
- Date
- 1800 - 1650 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
Collection
Provenance
- Phoenikiais
Identifiers
- Accession no.
- 1884,1210.109, British Museum · Museum record
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