bowl
- Museum number
- 1982,0729.70
- Description
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Pottery bowl in matt local colour-coated ware; wheel-made; bowl with sloping sides and sharply incurving rim, narrowing to small ring base; made of buff clay with an uneven red-brown slip extending over interior and exterior.
- Production date
- 300BC-50BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 12.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Similar shaped bowls in local colour-coated wares have been found at Paphos (Hayes 1991, 158 and Fig 57), at Kition-Bamboula (Salles 1993, Fig. 219, nos 393-395) and also at Salamis (but in Red Glazed Ware) in the dromos of Ayios Seryios Tomb 1 (Karageorghis 1978, pl. XLIX).
Bibliography
Hayes, J.W. 1991. Paphos. Vol. III. The Hellenistic and Roman Pottery, Nicosia.
Karageorghis, V. 1978, Salamis Vol. 7: Excavations in the Necropolis of Salamis IV, Nicosia.
Salles, J.-F. 1993. Kition-Bamboula IV. Les Niveaux hellénistiques, Paris
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1982
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1982,0729.70
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 301-1883 (V&A number)