Late Bronze Age II

Red Lustrous Arm-shaped Vessel

Pottery Red Lustrous Wheel-made ware arm-shaped vessel; mouth in the form of a hand holding a hemispherical bowl with the wrist forming the neck of the vessel; three rounded ridges at neck; body shape conical with rounded shoulder and carination at base; ring base; single pre-firing incised potmark on base; base chipped and part of hand missing; slipped and well burnished vertically on body and horizontally on shoulder and base to high lustre; reddish self-slip and clay; unusually short example of this class of vessel. Dimensions: Diameter: 8 centimetres; Height: 28.70 centimetres Object Type: arm-shaped vessel Ware: Red Lustrous Wheel-made Ware Techniques: wheel-made; burnished; self-slip