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Dish, Late Bronze Age III Cypriot dish and plate
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Dish, Late Bronze Age III Cypriot, c. 1200–950 BC. Liverpool Museum, 56.218.93.© National Museums Liverpool

Late Bronze Age III

Dish

Dish: Base of dish lower wall and one handle plus 2 separate fragments from the wall. The bowl has a high foot is of the Ring Bse type and it is of red clay with some grit, evenly fired medium hard with a well smoothed self slip. It is decorated in reddish brown paint: in the interior a medium band on mid wall, a medium band and a fine tight spiral of three encloses a central circle on the floor. thick light brown circular band. The exterior has decoration in a broad band on the mid wall. (Overall: 37 mm x 134 mm) - Made of Pottery Culture: Late Cypriot III; Cypro-Geometric I

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Shape
Dish and plate
Decoration
Painted
Motifs
Bands and lines, Concentric circles
Material
Clay
Place of production
Cyprus
Date
1200 - 950 BC

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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: 14Kouklia. 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.66, Plate: Volume II, 126

Identifiers

Accession no.
56.218.93, Liverpool Museum

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