Vessel, bowl, white slip
Production date
1590 BCE-1040 BCE
Country
Cyprus
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Object detail
Description
Bowl - White Slip: "White Slip II Ware bowl. Wide curved body with rounded base and slightly inturned plain rim. Wishbone handle from below rim, slightly downturned at tip. Hard, finely mixed brick-red clay with few grits, covered with thick white to buff slip, smoothed inside and out. Decoration in matt chocolate to dark brown paint. Roughly executed horizontal lattice band below rim, open-ended in handle area. On body six pendent lattice bands meeting on base, alternating with six narrow ladder bands and six rows of dots. Solid paint on sides of handle, groups of parallel bars on surface and solid rings above each handle/body join. Rim and end of handle chipped. Body mended. (Webb, Jennifer M., 1997 "Corpus of Cypriote Antiquities", Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, Vol. XX:p.4)
Classification
DOMESTIC EQUIPMENT Food and Drink Consumption bowl
ARCHAEOLOGY Cypriot
ARCHAEOLOGY Cypriot
Production date
1590 BCE-1040 BCE
Production place
Measurements
L92mm x W250mm x D250mm
Media/Materials description
Pottery, painted
Finely mixed brick-red clay with few grits
White to buff slip
Finely mixed brick-red clay with few grits
White to buff slip
Signature/Marks
decoration
History and use
Known as a "milk bowl" due to its usual milky-white colored slip, this is one of the most famous creations of the Late Cypriot Bronze Age. These bowls have wishbone-shaped handles and painted decoration over the outside surface, both diagnostic features of this ware. This exterior decoration suggests that the bowls may have been hung so that their striking and intricate patterns could be seen and appreciated.
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Registration number
H14523
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