Early Bronze Age III

Red Polished Box

Pottery Red Polished ware box (pyxis); hand-made; depressed oval body on a flattened base; oval mouth with small holes on each side midway along; the oval lid, with a single rectangular lug handle, has similar perforations in corresponding posiitions; made of light buff clay covered with a lustrous slip fired orange-red throughout; decorated with incised motifs: concentric rows of semi-circles joined by zig-zags composed of parallel lines on the base and body; on the lid, bands of parallel lines radiating from the lug handle; surface and slip worn in places; minor restoration on the body. Dimensions: Height: 12.70 centimetres with lid ; Length: 27.94 centimetres Object Type: pyxis Ware: Red Polished Ware (RP III) Series: Stewart Type IX C c3 -?- Techniques: handmade; slipped; incised