Late Bronze Age III

Bowl

Bowl: A carinated bowl with a ring base, a short and angular body, flat rim and two angular handles of the wishbone type, one at each side of the rim. The bowl has a creamy White Painted I type slip on its external body and only one thick circular band in orange brown/ red slip along the middle wall of its exterior body. The rim is painted in a darker brown paint and on top of the handles. The interior of the bowl has two medium circular bands on the middle wall of its body. The centre of the interior has a lean enclosed light red spiral of one spiral on the floor. The clay is light buff with a few inclusions, evenly fired soft with wet smoothed cream self slip. There is one crack in the exterior of the body that has been restored and two further restorations on the rim. (Overall: 61 mm x 185 mm) - Made of Pottery Culture: Late Cypriot IIIA