Proto White Slip Bowl

Proto White Slip Bowl

Description:

Pottery bowl in Proto White Slip ware; handmade; hemispherical bowl with a horizontal, blunt wishbone handle just below the rim; made of reddish clay with a pale creamy slip and orange-brown painted decoration; this consists of two encicrclingrope patterns enclosing a festoon pattern; alternating festoon patterns and rope patterns hang vertically from the lower encircling lattice.


Dimensions: Diameter: 12 centimetres; Height: 8.40 centimetres


Object Type: bowl


Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot)


Series: Proto White Slip (SCE type 3)


Techniques: slipped; painted

Period:

Late Bronze Age I

Date:

1650 - 1500 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Dhali

Accession Number:

1868,0905.45