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White Slip Bowl, Late Bronze Age II Cypriot, White Slip II
White Slip Bowl, Late Bronze Age II Cypriot, White Slip II, c. 1450–1200 BC. British Museum, 1896,0201.383.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age II

White Slip Bowl

Pottery bowl in White Slip IIA ware; shallow hemispherical body; everted rim; wish-bone handle below rim; buff-orange clay and white chalky slip and black paint; decorated on exterior below with frieze of cross-hatched lozenges framed by parallel lines from which descend alternating ladders, parellel lines and tree-like bands; handle covered with cross hatching; part of body restored around handle; White Slip IIA. Dimensions: Diameter: 16.50 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot) Series: White Slip II (IIA) Techniques: painted; slipped

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Slip wareWhite Slip II
Shape
BowlHemispherical bowlWishbone-handled bowl
Decoration
Painted
Motifs
Lattice and checkerboard, Ladder pattern
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)Late Cypriot II
Date
1450 - 1200 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Episkopi-Bamboula

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Accession No.

1896,0201.383

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Episkopi-Bamboula

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