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Accession_Number 58.2.6
Shape Bowl
Shape_description One-handled bowl. Rim is slightly concave. Handle is in wishbone shape. A deep well is in the centre, of a greatly smaller diameter than the rest of the bowl. For general shape cf. Sydney, Nicholson Museum 55.18 (Base-ring wheel-made Ware, Late Cypriot III).
Material Terracotta
Fabric Cypriote
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 7.5YR 6/4
Decoration Brown clay(?), blackened greatly in places. No pattern can be distinguished.
Inscriptions
Condition Intact, A chip is taken out at the tip of the handle. A hairline crack is about 1.0cm beneath the handle. Interior scratched and worn.
Technique/Style Hand made, Base-ring Ware
Provenance
Period Late Bronze Age
Date 14 c.
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

2003.92.0112.jpg
Top view of a Cypriot bowl, showing deep well in interior and wishbone handle.

2003.92.0113.jpg
Detail of a Cypriot bowl, showing wishbone handle and part of central well.

2003.92.0114.jpg
Detail of a Cypriot bowl, showing curving interior with deep well in centre.

2003.92.0115.jpg
Bottom view of an (upside down) Cypriot bowl, showing underside of body, well and handle.

2003.92.0116.jpg
Detail of an (upside down) Cypriot bowl, showing wishbone handle.

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Side view of an (upside down) Cypriot bowl, showing wishbone handle and exterior of body and well.

2003.92.0118.jpg
Side view of an (upside down) Cypriot bowl, showing well protruding underneath to form resting surface.

2003.92.0119.jpg
Side view of a Cypriot bowl, showing vessel resting on protruding well, and upcurving wishbone handle.

2004.13.0094.jpg
Right side view of a Cypriot bowl, showing vessel resting on protruding well, and upcurving wishbone handle.

2010.99.0008.jpg
Oblique view from above of a Cypriote one-handled bowl, showing the wishbone handle, to the right.

2010.99.0009.jpg
Oblique view from above of a Cypriote one-handled bowl, showing the wishbone handle, to the right

2010.99.0010.jpg
Side view of a Cypriot bowl, showing vessel resting on protruding well, and upcurving wishbone handle.

2010.99.0011.jpg
Back view of a Cypriot bowl, showing the body and the wishbone handle

2010.99.0012.jpg
Left side view of a Cypriot bowl, showing vessel resting on protruding well, and upcurving wishbone handle.

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Front view of a Cypriot bowl, showing the body

2010.99.0014.jpg
Bottom view of a Cypriot bowl on its side, showing the wishbone handle and the base.

2010.99.0015.jpg
Bottom view of an (upside down) Cypriot bowl, showing underside of body, well and handle.

2010.99.0016.jpg
Oblique view from above of a Cypriote one-handled bowl, showing the wishbone handle, to the left
Comparanda
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Archive_Ref
Beazley_DB
Height 7.5
Diameters Rim 18.4; foot 6.8
Handle_height 3.6
Other_dims.
Location Timeline 1c bottom
Edited_by Jessica; ALexandra; Kinsey; Teifi; Marianne
Date_edited 25.06.2003; 18.08.2004; 17.01.2006; 15.08.2006; 16.07.2007
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