bowl
- Museum number
- ML.2634
- Description
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High-shouldered biconical carinated pottery bowl with flat base. Narrow shoulder above the carination with defined rounded bead lip. Exterior glossy burnish and interior burnished. Firing uncontrolled light; variegated buff, brown and grey.
- Production date
- 500 BC - 350 BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 215 millimetres (max)
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Height: 91 millimetres
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Weight: 717 grammes
- Curator's comments
- Stead and Rigby 1999
Repaired.
Context:
High-shouldered biconical carinated vessels: The vessel wall is in two planes meeting at a sharp angle forming a carinated shoulder at a point anywhere from mid-point to the upper quarter of the body. The basic carinated shape was introduced in Hallstatt C and continued into La Tène II.
Lipped versions: Narrow shoulder above the carination with defined rounded bead lip. Different capacities, presumably for different functions, were achieved by varying the depth of the vessel, so producing a range from shallow lids/dishes to bowls and jars with similar rim and shoulder diameters.
Bowls: Deep bowls with a flat base. Scarce. Chronology spans at least Hallstatt D and La Tène I, fifth century BC. Three examples in Villeneuve-Renneville grave 56 and grave 58.
Bibliography: Morel, L., 1898, ‘La Champagne souterraine’ Reims, pl. 6, fig. 5.
- Location
- On display (G50/dc13)
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- ML.2634