One-handled bowl

Title: One-handled bowl
Inventory Number: A0023
Date Acquired: 1958
Source: Rohe Bequest
Provenance: Italy
From Date: -799
To Date: -700
Description: Flat-bottomed bowl with inturned rim and incrusted decoration on exterior. Primary decoration consists of two broad stripes around lower body above which a row of approximately solidly painted squares and at juncture of body and rim stripe with pendant loops; traces of now largely fugitive X’s in each square. Traces of stripe on roughly horizontal loop handle of circular section attached just below rim.
State of Preservation: Chips off rim; incrusted areas badly worn, in part because of sporadic but heavy incrustation over surface.
Height: 10.00 cm
Max Diameter: 23.3 cm
Rim Diameter: 19.5 cm
Base Diameter: 8.5 cm
Color: Clay body about 10R 3/2 (dusky red); incrustation ca 5YR 8/1 (white); added decoration about 2.5Y 5/2 (grayish brown).
Type: vessel
Material: fired clay