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bowl
Object Type
bowl
Museum number
1939,0217.42
Description
Pottery horn-lug bowl Red Polished I (Black-topped) ware; hand-made; hemispherical body with round base and a vertical pierced attached at the midline; slipped and polished , red surface with black top and interior; reconstructed from fragments, some missing.
Cultures/periods
Early Cypriot I
Production date
2300BC-2100BC
Production place
Made in:
Cyprus
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
J R Stewart
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Vounous
, Tomb 113
Materials
pottery
Ware
Red Polished Ware
Type series
Red Polished I-II (north coast)
(Stewart type XIII Da)
Technique
handmade
pierced
slipped
polished
Dimensions
Diameter:
11 centimetres
Height:
9.20 centimetres
(max.)
Bibliographic references
Stewart & Stewart 1950 / Vounous 1937-38. Field-report on the excavations sponsored by the British School of Archaeology at Athens
(p.151, Tomb 113, no. 26)
Stewart CCAEBA / Corpus of Cypriot artefacts of the Early Bronze Age
(Part III.1, p. 114, no. 92)
Location
Not on display
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
J R Stewart
Acquisition date
1939
Department
Greek and Roman
Registration number
1939,0217.42
Additional IDs
Excavation/small finds number:
26
(Excavation Number)