White Slip II Wishbone Bowl - image 1

Late Bronze Age II

White Slip II Wishbone Bowl

Pottery White Slip II hemispherical bowl with wishbone handle; hand-made; grey-buff slip, thin in parts with occastional burnishing marks; decoration in brown paint; row of dots at rim above lattice pattern; frontal motif of vertical ladder with oblique rows of dotted lines crossed by horizontal line and framed by vertical lattices; body with horizontal row of dots above lattice with pendant alternating ladder and lattice patterns to base; oblique lines on handle top and lines down sides and at body join; horizontal line through ladder beneath handle. Dimensions: Diameter: 17.40 centimetres; Height: 9.70 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot) Series: White Slip II Techniques: painted; slipped; burnished; handmade

Date

1450 - 1200 BC

Accession No.

1897,0401.954

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Enkomi