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Red Lustrous Arm-shaped Vessel, Late Bronze Age II Cypriot, Red Lustrous Wheelmade ware
Red Lustrous Arm-shaped Vessel, Late Bronze Age II Cypriot, Red Lustrous Wheelmade ware, c. 1450–1200 BC. British Museum, 1897,0401.1301.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age II

Red Lustrous Arm-shaped Vessel

Pottery Red Lustrous Wheel-made ware arm-shaped vessel; mouth in the form of a hand holding a hemispherical bowl with the wrist forming the neck of the vessel; three rounded ridges at neck; body shape conical with rounded shoulder and carination at base; ring base; single pre-firing incised potmark on base; base chipped and part of hand missing; slipped and well burnished vertically on body and horizontally on shoulder and base to high lustre; reddish self-slip and clay; unusually short example of this class of vessel. Dimensions: Diameter: 8 centimetres; Height: 28.70 centimetres Object Type: arm-shaped vessel Ware: Red Lustrous Wheel-made Ware Techniques: wheel-made; burnished; self-slip

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Red Lustrous Wheelmade ware
Shape
Special and ritual vesselsArm-shaped vessel
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)Late Cypriot II
Date
1450 - 1200 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Enkomi

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Enkomi

Identifiers

Accession no.
1897,0401.1301, British Museum · Museum record

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