bowl

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Object Type
Museum number: 1898,1020.5
Description: Egyptian glazed composition (faience) 'Common bowl'; mould-made and covered with a blue glaze with brown painted decoration; hemispherical body, rounded rim and round base; interior decoration consists of a large rosette in the centre framed with encircling lines with dots; part of rim broken; mended from sherds.
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: 9.70 centimetres; Height: 3.20 centimetres
Curator's comments: See E. Peltenburg, 'Hathor, faience and copper on Late Bonrze Age Cyprus', CCEC 37 (2007), 375-394 and fig. 4b on the Egyptian 'common bowl' on Cyprus.
Bibliographic references: Malmgren 2003 / Klavdhia-Tremithos. A Middle and Late Cypriote Bronze Age site. (no. 148, p. 56); Peltenburg 1986 / Ramesside Egypt and Cyprus (p.185); Jacobsson 1994 / Aegyptiaca from Late Bronze Age Cyprus (No. 36); Kiely 2011d / Klavdia-Tremithos: A Bronze Age community in south-east Cyprus (M.4)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1898
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1898,1020.5

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