White Slip Wishbone Bowl

White Slip Wishbone Bowl

Description:

Pottery bowl in White Slip ware; hemispherical body with inverted upper portion above the line of the handle; hand-made; stumps of a wish-bone handle below rim; grey fabric and dull white slip decorated in matt brown paint: band of short vertical strokes or dots below rim; below is horizontal complex ladder and running chain motif extending, the latter framed below by another complex ladder pattern; from this descend vertical simple and complex ladders to the base with rows of short strokes and dots in between; White Slip II.


Dimensions: Diameter: 17.50 centimetres


Object Type: bowl


Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot)


Series: White Slip II


Techniques: handmade; slipped; painted

Period:

Late Bronze Age II

Date:

1450 - 1200 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Episkopi-Bamboula

Accession Number:

1896,0201.367