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White Painted Spiral Bowl, Late Bronze Age III Cypriot, White Painted Wheelmade III
White Painted Spiral Bowl, Late Bronze Age III Cypriot, White Painted Wheelmade III, c. 1250–1150 BC. British Museum, 1896,0201.333.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age III

White Painted Spiral Bowl

White Painted Wheelmade III pottery bowl imitating a LHIIIB shape; biconical ring base; carinated body; upright, concave rim with slight evertion; originally two opposing horizontal ribbon handles, one missing; exterior decorated with horizontal bands of orange-brown matt paint; interior likewise but also has closed spiral descendiing to floor of vessel; unslipped (?); small crack across inner part of spiral; over-firing has distorted shape of bowl. Dimensions: Diameter: 15.40 centimetres; Height: 5.50 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: White Painted Wheel-made Ware Series: White Painted Wheel-made III Techniques: painted

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Painted Wheelmade wareWhite Painted Wheelmade III
Shape
BowlCarinated bowl
Decoration
Painted
Motif
Guilloche and spiral
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)
Date
1250 - 1150 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Episkopi-Bamboula

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Episkopi-Bamboula

Identifiers

Accession no.
1896,0201.333, British Museum · Museum record
Report entry
Episkopi-Bamboula, BM Tomb 96, no. 1Murray et al. 1900, p. 80

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