Cypriot White Painted II Earthenware Bowl
Cypro-Archaic II (950-850BC). Height 12.5cm, width 19.1cm. Diameter 8.1cm, diameter of rim 19.8cm.
A bowl with a slightly raised ring base and a convex body, finished with a sharp rim. Small round horizontal handles are attached at mid-body. Made of brick-coloured clay with a matte pinkish-buff slip and greyish-black painted decoration.
The inside is painted with a concentric circle decorates the bottom, with lines and bands encircling the body. Outside, bands encircle the upper and lower body and rim. Each side features a vertical zigzag pattern framed by panels and a cross motif. The handles and base are also painted.
The location and find date of the object is not recorded. It has been suggested that it may have come from Marion.
The bowl was given as a gift by L.Z. Pierides to the Crown Prince of Sweden Gustaf Adolf in 1925 and later donated to the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm in 1926. In 1982 it was deposited at the Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden (Inv. No.: SHM 17946:0006) joining objects from the SCE in the wider Cyprus collection.