White Slip Wish-Bone Bowl

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

Provenance:

Accession Number:

1985,1008.1