bowl
- Museum number
- 2013,5023.2
- Description
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Pottery bowl/cup in Bichrome Ware; wheel-made; deep hemispherical body on a raised ring base; plain everted rim; pair of opposing horizontal handles;. Made of buff orange clay, main surface fired a lighter cream colour, with added bands of black and purple paint inside and out; below the handles are sash motifs. Surface very worn and encrusted in places, the body is cracked in one place to right of hand in one place.
- Production date
- 750 BC-600 BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 11.50 centimetres
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Height: 8 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Markings: a green paper label, with '114/4' ('114' printed both side and '4' added in pencil); a small handwrittem label with ''Browsholme'/red line/'40'; letter 'A' pencilled on base.
For parallels see SCE IV/2, fig. XXXI,1 (also fig. XXXVII, 22 for a similar shape in Black-on-Red)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition notes
- One of a group of ancient Mediterranean objects - Cypriot, Attic and related, and Roman - found unregistered in the Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas in 2013 and then transferred to GR. Attached labels or handwritten tags sugegst that they come from one or more old collections - several labels have 'Browsholme' written on them, possibly referring to the country seat in Lancashire of the Parker family, several generations of which in the 19th century were antiquarians. One example (2013,5022.3) has what appears to be 'Curium [i.e. Kourion]' pencilled on the base, but it is unclear if the other Cypriot items came from here.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2013,5023.2