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1884.38.34

Ceramic bowl with vertical string-hole handle below rim; black polished ware with incised decoration filled with lime [Dan Hicks 01/05/2012]

1884.38.34

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Collection type
Object
Description
Ceramic bowl with vertical string-hole handle below rim; black polished ware with incised decoration filled with lime [Dan Hicks 01/05/2012]
Long description
Pottery vessel, bowl. (Birgitte Speake 15.5.1997) [FC 27/01/2009] "Small deep bowl of back polished ware. Hemispherical body, round base, plain rim, vertical string-hole handle below rim. The entire exterior surface is decorated with incised linear patterns filled with lime. Horizontal chain of latticed lozenges around the upper body and a vertical chain from below the handle, across the base, to the opposite side. Narrow bands filled with hatchings flank this chain. There are similar bands, vertical and oblique, around the entire exterior surface". [Description by Karageorghis, V., 2009, p.28] [JFK 09/10/2009] From conservation card by Birgitte Speake 15.5.1997: Roughly circular black burnished ware. Incised on the outside decorated with white (pigment). One small 'ear' handle. [FC 27/01/2009]
Geographical reference
Cyprus
Asia > Western Asia > Cyprus
Unknown
Date / Period
Date made: 2500-1900 BC Archaeological period: Bronze Age
Date collected
By 1874
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Pottery, Material Pigment, Process Incised, Process Painted, Process Polished
Dimensions
Height: max 71 mm, Width: max 128 mm, Diameter: max 121 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.38.34 Other numbers: Cypriot Archaeology 010 PR Cat other PR nos: 1976
Research and responses

"Probably excavated by Luigi Palma di Cesnola and purchased by Pitt Rivers at Sotheby's by 1874". [Karageorghis, V., 2009, p.28] [JFK 09/10/2009]

Associated publications
Published under catalogue number 10 on page 28 in Karageorghis, V., (2009) Cypriote Art in the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. A.G. Leventis Foundation. [JFK 08/10/2009]

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