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Bowl, Late Bronze Age III Cypriot, c. 1200–1100 BC. Liverpool Museum, 56.218.51.© National Museums Liverpool

Late Bronze Age III

Bowl

Bowl: Fragment of a bowl, handless and angular, parts of the body and the rim missing and were restored in plaster. The bowl is deep but small and of a buff clay with a few grits, evenly fired medium hard and has a wet smoothed self slip and matt brown paint decoration of a dot spiral on the interior floor. The spiral continued in the interior wall and the exterior also has a spiral band of four. (Overall: 45 mm x 85 mm x 100 mm) - Made of Pottery Culture: Late Cypriot IIIA

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Shape
Bowl
Decoration
Painted
Motif
Guilloche and spiral
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, …

References

Identifiers

Accession no.
56.218.51, Liverpool Museum

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