
Early Bronze Age I
Red Polished Bowl
Pottery bowl in Red Polished black-top ware; hand-made; deep body tapering inwards to a narrow flat base; single concave vertical lug, horizontally pierced, decorated with incised horizontal strokes. Made of buff clay, with a polished slip, fired red below and black above. Dimensions: Diameter: 14.30 centimetres; Height: 11 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: Red Polished Ware Series: Red Polished I-II (north coast) (Stewart type XIII B type a2 var. b) Techniques: slipped; polished; handmade
Date
2300 - 2150 BC
Accession No.
1939,0217.8
Collection
British Museum
Provenance
- Vounous