CYPRUS
Bowl (white painted VI ware)
Iron Age, Cypro-Classical I 475 BCE-400 BCE

Medium
earthenware

Measurements
4.1 × 17.3 × 13.6 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1922

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Gallery location
Not on display

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Place/s of Execution
Cyprus

Accession Number
2385-D3

Department
Antiquities

Physical description
Shallow wheel made bowl with protruding ring base. Two horizontal handles (one of which is broken) are located on opposite sides of the vessel and attached immediately below the rim. On either side of the handles are pointed lugs. The bowl is decorated with concentric dark brown bands varying in width, usually a wide band circled by finer bands. The rim, handles and lugs are also painted brown.

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CYPRUS
Bowl (white painted VI ware)
Iron Age, Cypro-Classical I 475 BCE-400 BCE