Proto-White Painted Bathtub

Proto-White Painted Bathtub

Description:

Miniature terracotta bathtub decorated in Proto-White Painted ware; hand-made; rectangular body with splaying sides; originally two lugs on each of the long sides, one now lost; buff clay with a slightly ligter coloured slip, decorated black matt paint: irregular hatching or wavy bands between vertical parallel lines.


Dimensions: Length: 9 centimetres


Object Type: bath-tub; model


Ware: Proto-White Painted ware


Techniques: painted; slipped

Period:

Late Bronze Age III

Date:

1100 - 1000 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1981,0810.8