White Slip Wishbone Bowl

White Slip Wishbone Bowl

Description:

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

Period:

Late Bronze Age II

Date:

1375 - 1200 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1869,0604.46