WPW III Painted Bowl
Description: | Small handleless pottery bowl in WPW III ware; flat base and straight, slightly flaring sides; counter-sunk concave base (ca. 3.1 cm in diameter); plain rim with slight lip projecting inwards, damaged in places; reddish-pink gritty clay; minimal or no slip apparent; exterior of vessel appears to have lost all of its painted decoration except for traces of a band of red paint separating the sides and the base; interior has traces of a band of red paint in the same position and a closed relief spiral on the floor of the vessel; traces of red paint in the centre of the spiral; lip of rim is painted in matt brown. Dimensions: Diameter: 13 centimetres rim ; Height: 5 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: White Painted Wheel-made Ware Series: White Painted Wheel-made III Techniques: painted; wheel-made |
Period: | Late Bronze Age III |
Date: | 1250 - 1100 BC |
Collection: | British Museum |
Provenance: | Episkopi-Bamboula |
Accession Number: | 1896,0201.364 |