Semitic Museum No. 1995.10.738
White Slip Bowl
Date: Late Cypriot

Form: White Slip II bowl. Wide, hemispherical body, plain rim, folded-in by handle attachment, stumps, ovoid in section, of what probably was a wishbone handle.

Fabric: Grey clay, more orange in color toward the exterior of the section, with white inclusions and shiny sandy grits.

Decoration: Thick beige slip, worn and flaking in places in the interior. Very clear decoration in dark brown to orange matt paint on the exterior: horizontal lattice band of 4 lines around rim, doesn't meet at handle, pendent vertical lattice bands alternate with hatched/laddered bands in direction of base, 3 sets of 2 lines of dots, each line placed either side of the wider multiple ladder pattern, 1 set opposite the handle.

Technical/Manufacturing: Handmade or perhaps moldmade. In-fold of rim probably is the result of the potter attaching the handle.

Remarks: Provenance unknown. Common type of White Slip II bowl, also known as a "milk bowl" due to its usual milky-white colored slip. Painted decoration called White Slip Paint B in Karageorghis and Stampolidis (eds)1998:108, Bowl 10. Late Cypriot II (1450-1225 B.C.), ca. 1400 B.C. in date.

• Publication: None.
• Comparanda SM: 1995.10.739-740, and 1995.10.741 on exhibition Semitic Museum Ancient Cyprus 1997 - .
• Comparanda Elsewhere: PLCBA:45, Fig. 10, Sjoqvist's Type 2B. SCE IV:466, Astrom's Type ID. Kershaw (ed) 1983:46 with illustration, object no. 64, purchased from the Cesnola Collection, Metropolitan Museum now in the Ringling Collection, Sarasota, Florida (SN 28.124). Nicolaou, I. and K. 1989:54, Plate XXV, Kazaphani Ayios Andronikos , Tomb 2: Chamber B, object 255. Webb 1997:4, Plate 1, object 9 and references. INA Website, http//nautarch.tamu.edu/INA/, Virtual Museum of Nautical Archaeology, Bronze Age Shipwreck Excavation at Uluburun, Artifact & Image Gallery, Ceramics, underside of one and also 2 White Slip II Cypriot milk bowls found in the pithoid krater (KW 251), images KW-12426, 12429.