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White Slip Wish-Bone Bowl, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot
White Slip Wish-Bone Bowl, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot, c. 1650–1450 BC. British Museum, 1985,1008.1.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age I

White Slip Wish-Bone Bowl

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

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Slip ware
Shape
BowlHemispherical bowlWishbone-handled bowl
Decoration
Painted
Motifs
Wavy lines, Bands and lines, Dots and dot rows
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)Late Cypriot I
Date
1650 - 1450 BC
Place of production
Cyprus

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

Identifiers

Accession no.
1985,1008.1, British Museum · Museum record

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