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Plain White Deep Bowl, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot, Plain White Wheelmade
Plain White Deep Bowl, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot, Plain White Wheelmade, c. 1650–1340 BC. British Museum, 1897,0401.1201.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age I

Plain White Deep Bowl

Pottery Plain White Wheel-made ware deep bowl; short concave neck with slightly everted rim; carinated shoulder forming biconical body; ring base; two vertical loop handles from below rim to shoulder; body exterior scraped and trimmed to thin walls; pale cream self-slip with sandy pink fabric. Dimensions: Diameter: 15.20 centimetres; Height: 12.60 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: Plain White Wheel-made Ware Techniques: wheel-made; self-slip; scraped

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Plain White ware (Bronze Age)Plain White Wheelmade
Shape
Bowl
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)
Date
1650 - 1340 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
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Enkomi

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Enkomi

Identifiers

Accession no.
1897,0401.1201, British Museum · Museum record

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