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White Slip Krater, Late Bronze Age II Cypriot, White Slip II
White Slip Krater, Late Bronze Age II Cypriot, White Slip II, c. 1450–1200 BC. British Museum, 1897,0401.1109.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age II

White Slip Krater

Pottery krater; White Slip II ware; hand-made; short concave neck with flat topped everted rim; globular body with slightly flattened base; wishbone handle on shoulder; dark brown painted decoration comprising rim ticks on top of rim with four sets of four short vertical lines on neck interior; exterior has dotted scale pattern on neck and upper shoulder; two rows of hatched lozenges at maximum diameter with six pendant vertical rows of hatched lozenges to base interspersed with vertical wavy lines framed by dots and horned vertical lozenges in sets of one or two; sets of four lines on handle; thick light buff slip, unevenly applied on interior; fabric reddish brown; mended from sherds. Dimensions: Diameter: 18.90 centimetres; Height: 18.40 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot) Series: White Slip II Techniques: painted; slipped; handmade

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Slip wareWhite Slip II
Shape
Krater
Decoration
Painted
Motifs
Dots and dot rows, Ladder pattern
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.
1897,0401.1109, British Museum · Museum record

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