Early Bronze Age III

Red Polished Ware Bowl

Pottery bowl in Red Polished II ware; hand-made; hemispherical body on a rounded base; incurving rim; single pierced lug placed below the rim; made of fairly coarse clay covered with a highly polished slip, fired red throughout the body; decorated with incised motifs filled with lime: horizontal parallel lines framing a zig-zag below the rim, cross-hatched arcs on the body. semicircles and zilustorus slip, buff redware bowl; pierced lug; incised decoration of hatched bands and zig-zags; rim chipped and surface worn in places. Dimensions: Diameter: 12.40 centimetres; Height: 6.20 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: Red Polished Ware Series: Red Polished I-II (north coast) (Stewart Type XIII F3) Techniques: pierced; incised; handmade; slipped