Bowl

Bowl

Description:

Bowl: A complete and intact small but deep bowl with a small recess in the underfoot. White Painted III type decoration of a pinkish buff clay with some mixed grit, evnely fired medium hard. The decoration is in mattt orange red paint in the exterior body of a spiral of four continuing up on the wall. In the inside there is a dot on the floor and a spiral ofsix continuing on the wall. One sherd has been joined together with the body and the bowl has had some restoration along its flat rim. (Overall: 40 mm x 90 mm x 82 cm) - Made of Pottery Culture: Late Cypriot IIIA

Period:

Late Bronze Age III

Date:

1200 - 1100 BC

Collection:

Liverpool Museum

Provenance:

St Andrews University and Liverpool Museums Kouklia Expedition, Previous owner, Division of Finds, Owned from: 1955, Donation (by Excavation Subscription), Owned until: 1956

References:

Cypriot Pottery in the Liverpool Museum, S C Tsielepi, Piotr Bienkowski, 1988, Page: 11Kouklia. Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Tombs at Palaephaphos 1951-954. Excavations of the Liverpool City Museum and St Andres University Expedition to Palaepaphos, H.W. Catling, Page: Volume I, p.65, Plate: Volume II, 124

Accession Number:

56.218.78

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