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Bowl, Late Bronze Age III Cypriot, c. 1200–1100 BC. Liverpool Museum, 56.218.78.© National Museums Liverpool

Late Bronze Age III

Bowl

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

Classification

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

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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

Identifiers

Accession no.
56.218.78, Liverpool Museum

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