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White Slip Wishbone Bowl, Late Bronze Age II Cypriot, White Slip I
White Slip Wishbone Bowl, Late Bronze Age II Cypriot, White Slip I, c. 1375–1200 BC. British Museum, 1869,0604.46.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age II

White Slip Wishbone Bowl

Pottery bowl in White Slip I ware; handmade; hemispherical bowl with round base and up-tilted wishbone handle attached one side just below the rim; made in reddish-brown clay with a thick white slip; dark brown painted decoration consists of an encircling framed wavy line decoration just under the rim with groups of three parallel lines hanging vertically from the frieze; repaired from fragmenst with part of the rim reconstituted. Dimensions: Diameter: 17.50 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot) Series: White Slip I (SCE type IA) Techniques: slipped; painted

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Slip wareWhite Slip I
Shape
BowlHemispherical bowlWishbone-handled bowl
Decoration
Painted
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)
Date
1375 - 1200 BC
Place of production
Cyprus

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Cyprus

Identifiers

Accession no.
1869,0604.46, British Museum · Museum record

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