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White Painted Wheelmade Bowl, Late Bronze Age III Cypriot, White Painted Wheelmade III
White Painted Wheelmade Bowl, Late Bronze Age III Cypriot, White Painted Wheelmade III, c. 1340–1050 BC. British Museum, 1897,0401.921.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age III

White Painted Wheelmade Bowl

Pottery White Painted Wheelmade III shallow bowl; wheel-made; rim slightly flaring with flat top; single horizontal loop handle at rim; disc base; light buff slip; decorated with purple painted bands on interior and exterior; purple band at rim. Dimensions: Diameter: 18 centimetres; Height: 5.40 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: White Painted Wheel-made Ware Series: White Painted Wheel-made III Techniques: painted; slipped; wheel-made

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Painted Wheelmade wareWhite Painted Wheelmade III
Shape
Bowl
Decoration
Painted
Motif
Bands and lines
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)
Date
1340 - 1050 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Enkomi

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Enkomi

Identifiers

Accession no.
1897,0401.921, British Museum · Museum record

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