bowl

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Object Type
Museum number: 1888,0927.16
Description: Pottery bowl in Red Polished II ware; hand-made; hemispherical body on a rounded base; incurving rim; single pierced lug placed below the rim; made of fairly coarse clay covered with a highly polished slip, fired red throughout the body; decorated with incised motifs filled with lime: horizontal parallel lines framing a zig-zag below the rim, cross-hatched arcs on the body. semicircles and zilustorus slip, buff redware bowl; pierced lug; incised decoration of hatched bands and zig-zags; rim chipped and surface worn in places.
Cultures/periods: Early Cypriot III; Middle Cypriot I
Production date: 2100 BC-1900 BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Ayia Paraskevi, tomb
Materials: pottery; lime
Ware
Type series
Technique: pierced; incised; handmade; slipped
Dimensions: Diameter: 12.40 centimetres; Height: 6.20 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (C61); CVA British Museum 1 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 1, British Museum 1 (pl. 3, 22); Stewart CCAEBA / Corpus of Cypriot artefacts of the Early Bronze Age (Part 4, p. 43. XIII F3a, untyped no. 60)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1888
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1888,0927.16

Free entry