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Proto-White Painted Bowl

Pottery bowl in Proto-White Painted ware; wheel-made; deep biconical body on three looped feet (which attached to a low ring base on the vessel itself); everted disc rim; four handles, two in the form of horned animal heads (possibly a moufflon) and two simpler looped examples (one now entirely missing). Made of slightly coarse buff clay with brown pained decoration: solid pain on the handles, between which are hatched triangles or vertical panels; ladder patterns on the legs and on the rim. Dimensions: Diameter: 14.10 centimetres; Height: 13.80 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: Proto-White Painted Techniques: wheel-made; painted

Date

1050 - 750 BC

Accession No.

1876,0909.93

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Cyprus