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Accession_Number 47.2.22
Shape Bowl
Shape_description Shallow with two wishbone handles. Uneven rim and base
Material Terracotta
Fabric Cypriote
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 10YR 8/2
Decoration Interior: black ring on pale buff, black at rim. Exterior: broad and narrow black rings and one broad red ring, central black dot. Two wish-bone handles, black on both sides but reserved underneath. White painted ware I or II.
Inscriptions
Condition Good, paint slightly faded
Technique/Style Bichrome I-II Ware
Provenance Said to be from an old tomb in Cyprus
Period Cypro-Geometric I-II
Date 1050-850
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

2003.92.0098.jpg
Top view of a Cypriot white painted bowl, showing decorated interior and tops of handles.

2003.92.0099.jpg
Top view of a Cypriot white painted bowl, showing decorated interior and tops of handles.

2003.92.0100.jpg
Detail of a Cypriot white painted bowl, showing the handle and rim painted black, and part of the interior decoration.

2003.92.0101.jpg
Detail of a Cypriot white painted bowl, showing the handle and rim painted black, and part of the interior decoration.

2003.92.0102.jpg
Top view of a Cypriot white painted bowl, upside down, showing decorated base and underside of handles.

2003.92.0103.jpg
Side view of a Cypriot white painted bowl, showing uneven base and rim, and reserved sides of handles.

2003.92.0104.jpg
Oblique view, from slightly above, of a Cypriot white painted bowl, showing the uneven rim, decorated interior and reserved sides of handles.

2005.90.0028.jpg


2010.99.0036.jpg
Top view of a Cypriot white painted bowl, showing decorated interior and tops of handles.

2010.99.0037.jpg
Bottom view of a Cypriot white painted bowl, showing decorated base and underside of wishbone handles.

2010.99.0038.jpg
Oblique view from above, of a Cypriot white painted bowl, showing the uneven rim, decorated interior and wishbone handles.

2010.99.0039.jpg
Side view of a Cypriot white painted bowl, showing uneven base and rim, and reserved sides of handles.
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Height 1.9
Diameters 17.6
Handle_height 1.3; widening to 1.5
Other_dims. R.W.: 0.7
Location Household
Edited_by Jessica; Teifi; Marianne
Date_edited 10.06.2003; 02.08.2006; 16.07.2007
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