White Slip Wishbone Bowl

White Slip Wishbone Bowl

Description:

Pottery bowl in White Slip II ware; hand-made; hemispherical body on a rounded base; incurving rim; wishbone handle just below rim; made of red-orange fabric with a thin, cracked pinkish-white slip; decorated in brown matt paint with a ladder motif running below the rim and alternating simple and complex ladders arranged vertically; irregular series of narrow horizontal stokes between some of the vertical elements.


Dimensions: Diameter: 20 centimetres; Height: 9 centimetres


Object Type: bowl


Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot)


Series: White Slip II


Techniques: handmade; painted; slipped

Period:

Late Bronze Age II

Date:

1450 - 1200 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Episkopi-Bamboula

Accession Number:

1896,0201.31