White Painted Spiral Bowl - image 1

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

Date

1250 - 1150 BC

Accession No.

1896,0201.333

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Episkopi-Bamboula