White Slip Bowl

White Slip Bowl

Description:

Pottery bowl in White Slip I ware; handmade; small, shallow, hemispherical bowl with a flat base and one pierced vertical lug handle, round piercing on the wall near the lug; a buff fabric and pink-white slip; bright orange painted decoration with wavy line and three parallel bands around the rim, alternating motifs of ladders and ladders framing rows of dots running vertically to the base with infills of lattice squares, on the base, intersecting wavy bands forming a cross with open circles in each resultant quadrant; inside are four panels of six parallel lines symmertically arranged around the rim of the bowl.


Dimensions: Diameter: 14 centimetres; Height: 4.90 millimetres


Object Type: bowl


Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot)


Series: White Slip I (SCE type 5)


Techniques: slipped; painted; handmade

Period:

Late Bronze Age I

Date:

1600 - 1450 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1876,0515.4