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Dish, Late Bronze Age III Cypriot dish and plate
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Dish, Late Bronze Age III Cypriot, c. 1200–1100 BC. Liverpool Museum, 56.218.116.© National Museums Liverpool

Late Bronze Age III

Dish

Dish: A carinated dish with a small ring base, a circular rim and one small angular handle, surviving on the side of its rim. The clay is buff , grenish with no grit, evnely fired medium hard and it has a wet smoothed self slip.The interior is fired bright pink. The bowl has White Painted III decoration in red brown paint, in and outside the rim; inside a broad band on upper wall, three fine bands on lower wall and an encloswd quirk on the floor. The exterior mid wall has a medium band. The bowl has been joined together by different sherds and also has has restoration in one part of the body and half of its rim. (Overall: 49 mm x 170 mm) - Made of Pottery Culture: Late Cypriot IIIA

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Shape
Dish and plate
Decoration
Painted
Motif
Bands and lines
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.
56.218.116, Liverpool Museum

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