"White Painted Dish"
Description: | Pottery dish or plate in White Painted ware; shallow convex body on a wide ring base; pair of opposing wish-bone handles; orange clay with a cream slip, decorated in brown paint: central cruciform motif and concentric circles within, on the underside are complex geometric design in the form of triangles filled with hatching and lozenges and a row of hatched lozenges enfilade enclosed within parallel lines, solid handles; surface worn and slightly encrusted. Dimensions: Diameter: 22.80 centimetres Object Type: dish Ware: White Painted Ware (WP I-II) Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped |
Period: | Geometric I |
Date: | 1050 - 850 BC |
Collection: | British Museum |
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Accession Number: | 1982,0721.64 |