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White Slip II Globular Bowl, Late Bronze Age II Cypriot
White Slip II Globular Bowl, Late Bronze Age II Cypriot, c. 1450–1200 BC. British Museum, 1897,0401.905.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age II

White Slip II Globular Bowl

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

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Slip wareWhite Slip II
Shape
Bowl
Decoration
Painted
Motifs
Wavy lines, Dots and dot rows
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.
1897,0401.905, British Museum · Museum record

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