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Late Bronze Age II

White Slip Bowl

Pottery bowl; White Slip II ware; hand-made; hemispherical with slightly incurved rim; wishbone handle below rim; thick cream slip burnished to very slight lustre; decorated in dark brown paint with framed hatched ladder motif and dots at rim, frontal motif of vertical ladder, framed by rows of dots; body decorated with row of lozenges and second vertical hatched ladder beneath rim and alternating vertical hatched and single ladder bands to base; handle decorated with oblique lines; mended with sherd missing from body; fabric reddish brown. Dimensions: Diameter: 18.80 centimetres; Height: 10.90 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot) Series: White Slip II Techniques: painted; burnished; handmade; slipped

Date

1450 - 1200 BC

Accession No.

1897,0401.1031

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Enkomi