WPW III Painted Bowl

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