Accession No
1951.2007
Description
Cypriot bowl with wishbone handle. Globular bowl with round base and upright rim; wishbone handle on one side, below the rim; brown fabric with white slip, decorated with brown geometric designs on the exterior. Reconstructed from sherds.
Place
Asia; West Asia; Türkiye [Turkey]; Hatay Province; Tell Atchana [Alalakh]
Period
Late Bronze Age
Source
Museum of Classical Archaeology [donor]; Woolley, Leonard [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1951.2007; ATP/8/214 [Excavation No.]; 120 [Museum of Classical Archaeology no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery; Pigment
Local Term
Measurements
245mm
Events
Context (Field collection)
Found: From Palace 3. Excavated by Leonard Woolley, British Museum, in 1937 or 1938.
Event Date 1937
Author: maa
Context (Acquisition Details)
Albert L. Reckitt was a financial contributor to Leonard Woolley’s excavations at Tell Atchana and requested that a selection of material from the excavation be given to MAA in acknowledgement of his gift. This collection entered the museum in 1938. See correspondence from Woolley and Reckitt in the archive (Doc.532).
Event Date 1938
Author: Katrina Dring
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Cypriote milk bowl of white slip ware with wishbone handle. Black painted patterns outside. Fragmentary.'
Event Date 1951
Author: maa
Context (References)
Woolley, Leonard. (1955). Alalakh: An Account of the Excavations at Tell Atchana in the Hatay, 1937–1949. Oxford: Society of Antiquaries of London.
Event Date 1955
Author: Katrina Dring
Description (Physical description)
Cypriot bowl with wishbone handle. Globular bowl with round base and upright rim; wishbone handle on one side, below the rim; brown fabric with white slip, decorated with brown geometric designs on the exterior. Reconstructed from sherds.
Event Date 3/8/2023
Author: Katrina Dring
FM:135769
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