Base Ring II Painted Bowl

Base Ring II Painted Bowl

Description:

Base Ring II pottery bowl; roughly hemispherical with slightly concave ring-base; slightly concave everted rim; single loop handle just below the rim at oblique angle; matt brown slip on reddish-pink fabric; decorated with bands of white paint, in parallel lines below the rim and in concentric crescents or semi-circles on the body. Short parallel bands of paint on handle and on the inside of the rim.


Dimensions: Diameter: 5 centimetres base ; Diameter: 13 centimetres rim ; Height: 10.50 centimetres; Height: 7.20 centimetres


Object Type: bowl


Ware: Base Ring Ware


Series: Base Ring II


Techniques: slipped; handmade; painted

Period:

Late Bronze Age II

Date:

1450 - 1100 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Episkopi-Bamboula

Accession Number:

1896,0201.217