bowl

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Object Type
Museum number: 1898,1020.4
Description: Egyptian(izing) glazed composition 'common bowl'; mould-made or -pressed and covered with a blue glaze and brown painted decoration; rounded bowl with hemispherical body, rounded rim and base; painted decoration represents a flying duck or swan with outspread wings; border of single wavy-line between parallel lines and dots; short strokes on the rim.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1350BC-1200BC
Production place: Made in: Egypt (probably)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Klavdia, tomb(?)
Materials
Technique: mould-made (?); glazed; painted
Dimensions: Diameter: 8.60 centimetres; Height: 2.70 centimetres
Curator's comments: See E. Peltenburg, 'Hathor, faience and copper on Late Bonrze Age Cyprus', CCEC 37 (2007), 375-394 on the Egyptian 'common bowl' on Cyprus.
Bibliographic references: Malmgren 2003 / Klavdhia-Tremithos. A Middle and Late Cypriote Bronze Age site. (no. 147, p. 56); Peltenburg 1986 / Ramesside Egypt and Cyprus (p.157, fig. 2.3); Jacobsson 1994 / Aegyptiaca from Late Bronze Age Cyprus (No. 187); Kiely 2011d / Klavdia-Tremithos: A Bronze Age community in south-east Cyprus (M.3)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1898
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1898,1020.4

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