Red Slip Ware Rattle

Red Slip Ware Rattle

Description:

Pottery zoomorphic rattle; Red Slip Ware; hand-made; crescent-shaped with pinched terminals probably representing ears; single pierced hole; contains three clay pellets to create rattle; thin, matt reddish brown slip; fabric buff; probably originally with loop handle at top, now missing.


Dimensions: Height: 5.60 centimetres max ; Thickness: 4.10 centimetres; Width: 5.50 centimetres


Object Type: rattle


Ware: Red Slip Ware (Cyprus)


Techniques: handmade; slipped

Period:

Late Bronze Age I

Date:

1650 - 1450 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Enkomi

Accession Number:

1897,0401.1104