bowl

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Object Type
Museum number: 1884,1210.180
Description: Large pottery spouted milk-bowl or basin in Red Polished ware; hand-made; wide, shallow body, slightly conical body with flat base; remains of a tubular spout below just at the side, now mostly missing; opposite the spout is a pierced lug for suspension; hard metallic, brick-red fabric covered in a burnished slip.
Cultures/periods: Early Cypriot (? EC II-III); Middle Cypriot I (?)
Production date: 2200BC-1900BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Phoenikiais, tomb
Materials
Ware
Type series: Stewart Type (X B type a); Red Polished III
Technique: pierced; handmade; polished
Dimensions: Diameter: 45.50 centimetres; Height: 19.50 centimetres
Curator's comments: Included with reservations by Stewart in his Class X, Group B, Type a (Corpus of Cypriot Antiquities of the Early Bronze Age, vol. III/1, p. 22).
Bibliographic references: Stewart CCAEBA / Corpus of Cypriot artefacts of the Early Bronze Age (Part III:1, p. 22. X B type a); CVA British Museum 1 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 1, British Museum 1 (pl. 2.6)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1884
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1884,1210.180

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