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 |