bowl

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Object Type
Museum number: 1939,0217.11
Description: Pottery 'tulip' bowl in Red Polished (black-top) ware; hand-made; deep body with a pointed nipple base and two vertical concave lugs, one of which is pierced. Made of fine buff clay, evenly slipped and polished, fired black above and in interior, and red below; decorated with white lime-filled zigzags and circles on the body, with semicircles at the rim.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 2300BC-2100BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Vounous, Site A, Tomb 105
Materials
Ware
Type series
Technique: handmade; slipped; incised
Dimensions: Diameter: 11.35 centimetres; Height: 14 centimetres; Width: 15.20 centimetres (overall width)
Bibliographic references: Stewart & Stewart 1950 / Vounous 1937-38. Field-report on the excavations sponsored by the British School of Archaeology at Athens (Tomb 105, no. 15, p. 123 and pl. XIV); Stewart CCAEBA / Corpus of Cypriot artefacts of the Early Bronze Age (Part III.1, p.94, no. 5); Cook 1979 / Cypriote art in the British Museum (p. 3); SCE IV/IA / The Swedish Cyprus Expedition. Vol.4. Part 1A, The stone age and the early bronze age in Cyprus (Fig. CXXXII.22)
Location: On display (G72/dc8)
Exhibition history: 2021-2022 29 Jun-9 Jan, Turin, Musei Reali, Cyprus: Crossroads of Civilization
Acquisition name
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1939,0217.11
Additional IDs: Excavation/small finds number: 15 (Excavation Number)

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