White Painted Bowl

White Painted Bowl

Description:

Pottery shallow bowl in White Painted V; handmade; roughly hemispherical bowl with a round horizontal handle; buff clay with a buff slip, decorated with dark brown paint, now very worn; outside, the top part of the bowl under the rim is decorated with zigzag parallel lines, whilst underneath two groups of three lines cross at the centre; inside the bowl, there are onlt taces of decoration.


Dimensions: Diameter: 8.50 centimetres; Height: 4.50 centimetres


Object Type: bowl


Ware: White Painted Ware


Series: White Painted IV (SCE type I A a)


Techniques: painted; handmade; slipped

Period:

Middle Bronze Age III

Date:

1750 - 1550 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais

Accession Number:

1884,1210.102