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White Slip Bowl, Late Bronze Age II Cypriot, White Slip II
White Slip Bowl, Late Bronze Age II Cypriot, White Slip II, c. 1250–1200 BC. British Museum, 1897,0401.1233.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age II

White Slip Bowl

Pottery White Slip II (late) ware small hemispherical bowl; hand-made; wish-bone handle below incurved rim; decorated in brown paint with bands of four lines; one band at rim and six pendant bands spaced around body to base; handle decorated with short lines; buff micaceous slip, rough in places and of variable thickness; fabric grey, small hole in base. Dimensions: Diameter: 13.10 centimetres; Height: 6.70 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot) Series: White Slip II ((late)) Techniques: slipped; painted; handmade

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Slip wareWhite Slip II
Shape
BowlHemispherical bowlWishbone-handled bowl
Decoration
Painted
Motif
Bands and lines
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)
Date
1250 - 1200 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Enkomi

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Enkomi

Identifiers

Accession no.
1897,0401.1233, British Museum · Museum record

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