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Spouted Redware Bowl with Pierced Handle

3rd millennium BCE

Round bottom. Some of exterior is abraded. Interior is undecorated. Small chips in rim. Exterior has band of circles around bottom, with large sections of vertical lines radiating outward. Ring of lines at rim. Incisions on spout. Red incised, incisions may have had white fill.

Period

Bronze Age, Early

Date

3rd millennium BCE

Culture

Cypriot

Dimensions

H: 8.00 cm W: 12.60 cm

Medium

Terracotta; pale orange clay with thick red slip

Findspot

Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Cyprus

Museum

Harvard Art Museums

Accession Number

1966.114

Image Source

harvard

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