Late Bronze Age II

White Slip Bowl

Pottery bowl with white slip and painted decoration; handmade; hemispherical body with rounded base; wish-bone handle (tip missing); slightly incurving rim; handle set below rim; pinkish-white slip, cracked in places, decorated in orange-brown paint: short vertical strokes around rim, a hooked chain frieze framed by two horizontal bands of hatched ladders, vertical bands of alternating simple and complex ladders framing hooked chains with floral finials or single dots, handle with simple parallel bands, dots and a circle at the tip; White Slip II ware. Dimensions: Diameter: 16.50 centimetres bowl ; Height: 11 centimetres; Length: 6.80 centimetres handle Object Type: bowl Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot) Series: White Slip II Techniques: painted; slipped