Red Polished Bowl - image 1

Early Bronze Age II

Red Polished Bowl

Pottery bowl in Red Polished (mottled) ware; hand-made; depressed hemispherical body on a flattened base, with a slightly concave round depression on the underside; four projections on rim; one pierced lug. Made of buff clay covered in a polished slip, fired reddish-orange but with mottling in places; decorated with incised zig-zags below the lip, traces of white fill in the incisions. The surface is covered in places with a white accretion. Dimensions: Diameter: 11.50 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: Red Polished Ware Techniques: incised; pierced; handmade; polished

Date

2200 - 2000 BC

Accession No.

1980,1126.3

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Vounous