Milk Bowl

White Slip "milk bowls" are one of the most readily distinguishable types of Cypriot Late Bronze Age pottery. Made exclusively on Cyprus, they are found as exports throughout the eastern Mediterranean world, the Aegean and north Africa. Milk bowls were also found on a Late Bronze Age shipwreck. Their near-perfect hemispherical shape suggests that they may have been molded over gourds, and perhaps were displayed on walls, so their intricate painted decoration could be seen and appreciated.