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White Slip Bowl, Late Bronze Age II Cypriot
White Slip Bowl, Late Bronze Age II Cypriot, c. 1425–1200 BC. British Museum, 1898,1201.154.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age II

White Slip Bowl

Pottery bowl in White Slip ware; hand-made; hemispherical body on a rounded base; small pierced ear-handle on one side; green-grey clay with thick greyish white slip; painted on exterior surface with eight groups of black lattice ladder pattern converging from rim to base and around the circumference; groups of vertical lines around the interior rim. Dimensions: Diameter: 14.20 centimetres; Height: 6.30 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot) Techniques: slipped

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Slip ware
Shape
BowlHemispherical bowl
Decoration
Painted
Motif
Lattice and checkerboard
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)
Date
1425 - 1200 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Maroni

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Maroni

Identifiers

Accession no.
1898,1201.154, British Museum · Museum record

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