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White Slip Wishbone Bowl, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot, White Slip I
White Slip Wishbone Bowl, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot, White Slip I, c. 1600–1450 BC. British Museum, 1897,0401.1327.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age I

White Slip Wishbone Bowl

Pottery White Slip I ware hemispherical bowl; hand-made; wishbone handle; thick white slip decorated with red-brown paint in fine line style with wavy line rim motif and frontal motif of double wavy lines framed with dotted lines; sets of triple vertical lines and double wavy lines framed by dotted lines around body. Dimensions: Diameter: 19.10 centimetres; Height: 11.20 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot) Series: White Slip I Techniques: slipped; painted; handmade

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Slip wareWhite Slip I
Shape
BowlHemispherical bowlWishbone-handled bowl
Decoration
Painted
Motifs
Wavy lines, Dots and dot rows
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)Late Cypriot I
Date
1600 - 1450 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Enkomi

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Enkomi

Identifiers

Accession no.
1897,0401.1327, British Museum · Museum record

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