Cypriot Very large bowl: Early Cypriot II-III- Middle Cypriot I (2000-1850

Large Red Polished III Mottled Ware bowl perhaps intended for feasting and used in the funeral feast prior to being placed in a tomb. Even larger examples are known. Piercings on the ledge-handle were probably to hang it up when not in use.  Complete, chip from rim, eroded slip on central underside and rim. Possible modern fire damage.

 Large, low conical, or paraboloid bowl, round bottom, ledge handle below rim pierced twice, and section of rim opposite extended up. Thick walls (2.3kg). Red slip with black patches on inside only.

Cf. British Museum BM1884,1210.176 (ECIII-MCI): Dikaios & Stewart 1962 CXXIX(16)(ECI, deep); CXLV (13) (EC II, not conical); Lubsen-Admiraal 2004 p.73 Fig.103 (body and handle); Karageorghis 2010b p.22 (ECI-III, bowl shape)