bowl

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Object Type
Museum number: 1898,1020.7
Description: Two rim fragments of an Egyptian(izing) glazed composition (faience) 'common bowl'; mould-made or -pressed and covered with a blue glaze and brown painted decoration; hemispherical body and rounded rim; the painted decoration seems to depict the front parts and head of a four-legged animal against a floral background, framed by a broad hatched border; dots and oblique 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: Length: 10 centimetres (when joined)
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. 150, p. 56); Peltenburg 1986 / Ramesside Egypt and Cyprus (p. 158); Jacobsson 1994 / Aegyptiaca from Late Bronze Age Cyprus (No. 199); Kiely 2011d / Klavdia-Tremithos: A Bronze Age community in south-east Cyprus (M.6)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1898
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1898,1020.7

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