Bichrome Kalathos Bowl - image 1

Late Bronze Age III

Bichrome Kalathos Bowl

Pottery basket-shaped bowl or kalathos in Bichrome ware; wheel-made; cylindrical body with a pronounced flare and everted rim; flat base; pairs of triangular-shaped piercings at intervals around the rim; pair of opposing horizontal loop handles; made of buff clay, decorated in matt brown paint on a cream-buff surface (possibly the result of firing rather than a actual slip): bands and hatched zig-zags inside and out. Dimensions: Diameter: 26 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: Bichrome Ware (BiCh I) Techniques: painted; pierced; wheel-made; slipped

Date

1100 - 1000 BC

Accession No.

1982,0729.395

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Kourion