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WPW III Painted Bowl, Late Bronze Age III Cypriot, White Painted Wheelmade III
WPW III Painted Bowl, Late Bronze Age III Cypriot, White Painted Wheelmade III, c. 1250–1100 BC. British Museum, 1896,0201.364.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age III

WPW III Painted Bowl

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

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
1250 - 1100 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Episkopi-Bamboula

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Episkopi-Bamboula

Identifiers

Accession no.
1896,0201.364, British Museum · Museum record

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