White Slip II Wishbone Bowl

White Slip II Wishbone Bowl

Description:

Hand-made pottery; White Slip II bowl wide, hemispherical body; short and wide vertical neck with everted rim at a slight oblique angle; wish-bone handle just below the rim; pale clay with thick cream-white slip decorated with brown paint; the neck is decorated with a horizontal ladder pattern, the shoulder has two cross-hatched bands with a linked lozenge motif between and the main body has pendants of cross-hatched bands and linked lozenge chains.


Dimensions: Diameter: 24 centimetres mouth ; Height: 25.50 centimetres


Object Type: bowl


Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot)


Series: White Slip II


Techniques: slipped; painted; handmade

Period:

Late Bronze Age II

Date:

1450 - 1200 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Hala Sultan Tekke

Accession Number:

1898,1231.27