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Late Bronze Age III

Bowl

Bowl: A wheelmade bowl with a tall foot, a lean and tall body, a flat circular rim and two side angular handles by the rim. The bowl has decoration of the White Painted II type of a reddish buff clay with some grit, evenly fired medium hard. The slip is wet and smoothed. The decoratio is of White painted tyoe with matt reddish brown paint: in the exterior of it s body a medium band on mid wall and paint all over the foot. In the interior: a medium band on the upper wall and enclosed dot on spiral of three on the floor. There are two long cracks on the body that have been repaired and a small part of the rim is missing. (Overall: 60 mm x 180 mm) - Made of Pottery Culture: Late Cypriot IIIA

Date

1200 - 1100 BC

Accession No.

56.218.100

Collection

Liverpool Museum

Provenance

  • St Andrews University and Liverpool Museums Kouklia Expedition, Previous owner, Division of Finds, Owned from: 1955, Donation (by Excavation Subscription), Owned until: 1956

References

  • Cypriot Pottery in the Liverpool Museum, S C Tsielepi, Piotr Bienkowski, 1988, Page: 10Kouklia. Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Tombs at Palaephaphos 1951-954. Excavations of the Liverpool City Museum and St Andres University Expedition to Palaepaphos, H.W. Catling, Page: Volume I, p.66, Plate: Volume II, 126