Red Lustrous Arm-shaped Vessel

Red Lustrous Arm-shaped Vessel

Description:

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

Period:

Late Bronze Age II

Date:

1450 - 1200 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Enkomi

Accession Number:

1897,0401.1301