White Slip Wish-Bone Bowl
Description: | Pottery bowl in White Slip ware; hand-made; hemispherical body on a rounded base; plain rim; large wish-bone handle just below the rim; made of coarse clay covered with a cream-white slip, decorated with brown and orange paint: wavy horizontal lines alternating with pairs of horizontal straight lines below the rim, vertical paralle lines around the body, vertical row of dots framing a wavy line; the shape of the vessel is distorted from firing. Dimensions: Diameter: 20 centimetres; Height: 12 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot) (WS I) Techniques: handmade; slipped |
Period: | Late Bronze Age I |
Date: | 1650 - 1450 BC |
Collection: | British Museum |
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Accession Number: | 1985,1008.1 |