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Bowl, Late Bronze Age III Cypriot, White Painted I
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Bowl, Late Bronze Age III Cypriot, White Painted I, c. 1200–950 BC. Liverpool Museum, 56.218.72.© National Museums Liverpool

Late Bronze Age III

Bowl

Bowl: A wide bowl with a high ring foot, a short body and a flat rim as well as two small horizontal handles or lugs, one at each side of the rim. The bowl has White Painted I type decoration of wet smoothed self slip of light buff clay and matt brown paint. In the exterior body there is a thick brown band along the mid wall, the rim is painted both inside and outside. The interior body has a mattt brown medium band on the upper wall, three narrow bands on the lower wall and an open circle on the floor. The bowl has been joined together by different sherds and there is still a large part of its body missing. The light buff clay has some grit and is evenly fired medium hard. (Overall: 60 mm x 190 mm x 130 mm) - Made of Pottery Culture: Late Cypriot III; Cypro-Geometric I

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Iron Age)White Painted I (Iron Age)
Shape
Bowl
Decoration
Painted
Material
Clay
Period
Iron AgeCypro-GeometricCypro-Geometric I
Date
1200 - 950 BC
Place of production
probablyCyprus

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Provenance

  • St Andrews University and Liverpool Museums Kouklia Expedition, Previous owner, …

References

Identifiers

Accession no.
56.218.72, Liverpool Museum

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