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White Painted Owl Rattle, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot statue, White Painted VI
White Painted Owl Rattle, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot, White Painted VI, c. 1650–1500 BC. British Museum, 1898,1201.156.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age I

White Painted Owl Rattle

Pottery: White Painted VI piriform rattle representing an owl; two holes serving as eyes and two projections at the top representing ear tufts; oval handle from back of head to shoulder; colour of clay not detectable; thick creamy white slip with brown painted stripes. Dimensions: Diameter: 6.30 centimetres; Height: 12.50 centimetres Object Type: rattle Ware: White Painted Ware Series: White Painted VI (SCE type XIV a) Techniques: slipped; painted

Classification

Object type
Terracotta figure-vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Bronze Age)White Painted VI (Bronze Age)
Decoration
Painted
Motif
Bands and lines
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)Late Cypriot I
Date
1650 - 1500 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Maroni

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Maroni

Identifiers

Accession no.
1898,1201.156, British Museum · Museum record

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