White Painted Wishbone Bowl

White Painted Wishbone Bowl

Description:

Pottery bowl; wide body with straight sides; single vertical wish-bone handle; low ring base; vessel complete but repaired; buff fabric and slip; brown to black painted decoration: roughly executed parallel lines on base from which four groups of vertical lines, symmetrically arranged, extend to base; on body, six regularly spaced panels framed by vertical parallel lines filled with bands of horizontal chevrons, concentric lozenges, concentric semi-circles and short horizontal strokes; band of paint inside rim; handle painted with short oval strokes; White Painted Wheelmade III ware.


Dimensions: Diameter: 18.50 centimetres; Height: 11.20 centimetres


Object Type: bowl


Ware: White Painted Wheel-made Ware


Series: White Painted Wheel-made III


Techniques: painted; slipped; wheel-made

Period:

Late Bronze Age III

Date:

1200 - 1100 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Episkopi-Bamboula

Accession Number:

1896,0201.223