White Slip Wish-Bone Bowl

White Slip Wish-Bone Bowl

Description:

Pottery bowl in White Slip I ware; handmade; hemispherical bowl with round base and horizontal wish-bone handle on one side; reddish-buff clay covered in a thick cream, matt slip; purplish brown painted decoration consists of parallel lines with and encircling frieze of four parallel lines around the rim and alternating groups of two and four parallel lines running vertically.


Object Type: bowl


Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot)


Series: White Slip I (SCE type IA)


Techniques: slipped; painted

Period:

Late Bronze Age I

Date:

1600 - 1375 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Accession Number:

1869,0604.48