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White Painted Bowl, Middle Bronze Age III Cypriot

Middle Bronze Age III

White Painted Bowl

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

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Bronze Age)White Painted V (Bronze Age)
Shape
Bowl
Decoration
Painted
Motifs
Zigzags and chevrons, Bands and lines
Material
Clay
Place of production
Cyprus
Date
1750 - 1550 BC

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Accession No.

1884,1210.102

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Phoenikiais

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