Red-on-Red Bowl

Red-on-Red Bowl

Description:

Pottery bowl in Red-on-Red ware; handmade; hemispherical shallow with a horizontal loop handle at the rim; pinkish-buff clay with a polished orange-red slip red, worn on the handle and underside, with painted decoration in dark red consisting of parallel wavy lines in a cruciform motif inside and out.


Dimensions: Height: 7.20 centimetres


Object Type: bowl


Ware: Red-On-Red Ware


Series: Red-on-red (SCE type I A c)


Techniques: handmade; painted; slipped

Period:

Middle Bronze Age III

Date:

1750 - 1550 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Accession Number:

1950,1108.1