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Proto White Slip Bowl, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot
Proto White Slip Bowl, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot, c. 1650–1500 BC. British Museum, 1868,0905.45.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age I

Proto White Slip Bowl

Pottery bowl in Proto White Slip ware; handmade; hemispherical bowl with a horizontal, blunt wishbone handle just below the rim; made of reddish clay with a pale creamy slip and orange-brown painted decoration; this consists of two encicrclingrope patterns enclosing a festoon pattern; alternating festoon patterns and rope patterns hang vertically from the lower encircling lattice. Dimensions: Diameter: 12 centimetres; Height: 8.40 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot) Series: Proto White Slip (SCE type 3) Techniques: slipped; painted

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Slip wareProto White Slip
Shape
BowlHemispherical bowlWishbone-handled bowl
Decoration
Painted
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)Late Cypriot I
Date
1650 - 1500 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
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Idalion

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Dhali

Identifiers

Accession no.
1868,0905.45, British Museum · Museum record

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