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Bowl, Late Bronze Age III Cypriot
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Bowl, Late Bronze Age III Cypriot, c. 1200–1100 BC. Liverpool Museum, 56.218.22.© National Museums Liverpool

Late Bronze Age III

Bowl

Bowl: A complete,short and shallow, wide bowl, with a short circular base, and a conical lower body. The rim is flat rim and there are two side, small horizontal lugs by the rim, placed assymetrically. The bowl has creamy White Painted type decoration in reddish to brown paint: careless painted band that does not join in brown along the middle exterior wall with very thick element in the middle and paint along the rim. In its interior the bowl is of light red slip and has a brown medium band along the nid wall and an enclosed spiral of four on the floor the body. The clay is pinkish with some middle sized grits, fired medium hard. A small part of the rim of the bowl has been restored but the two sides of the bowl seem uneven. (Overall: 60 mm x 190 mm x 170 mm) - Made of Pottery Culture: Late Cypriot IIIA

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Shape
Bowl
Decoration
Painted
Motifs
Bands and lines, Guilloche and spiral
Material
Clay
Period
Bronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)Late Cypriot III
Date
1200 - 1100 BC
Place of production
Cyprus

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Provenance

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

References

Identifiers

Accession no.
56.218.22, Liverpool Museum

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