White Slip Wishbone Bowl - image 1

Late Bronze Age II

White Slip Wishbone Bowl

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

Date

1450 - 1200 BC

Accession No.

1896,0201.31

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Episkopi-Bamboula