White Slip II Globular Bowl

White Slip II Globular Bowl

Description:

Pottery White Slip II globular bowl with everted rim and round base; hand-made; single small vertical loop handle with concave outer face low on shoulder; decorated in matt brown paint with horizontal wavy lines and dots in imitation of scale pattern on upper body, lower body with five evenly spaced vertical wavy lines framed by dots to base with row single or double hatched lozenges between; single festoon with dots on rim interior; red clay with thick, slightly lustrous pale yellowish slip; large chip from rim and hole in body.


Dimensions: Diameter: 21.40 centimetres; Height: 15.50 centimetres


Object Type: bowl


Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot)


Series: White Slip II


Techniques: painted; handmade; slipped

Period:

Late Bronze Age II

Date:

1450 - 1200 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Enkomi

Accession Number:

1897,0401.905