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Late Bronze Age I

White Slip Bichrome Bowl

Pottery bowl; White Slip I (bichrome) ware; hand-made; hemispherical with incurved rim; wish-bone handle below maximum diameter; decorated in reddish brown and dark brown paint with double framed wavy line motif at rim; vertical horned frontal motif framed by vertical rows of dots between lattice ladders and cut by band of three horizontal lines; two more vertical horned motifs framed by rows of dots either side and remainder of body with sets of triple vertical lines to base; sets of triple lines on handle; thick, cream slip lightly burnished to a low lustre; brick red fabric; mended with one rim piece missing. Dimensions: Diameter: 18.50 centimetres; Height: 10.30 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot) (Bichrome) Series: White Slip I Techniques: painted; slipped; handmade; burnished

Date

1600 - 1450 BC

Accession No.

1897,0401.1110

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Enkomi