Skip to main content

Red-polished ware bowl, with animal-head and sun disc attachments: GR.5y.1939

An image of Pot

Terms of use

These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.

Download this image

Creative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.

Alternative views

Object information

Current Location: Gallery 22 (Cypriot)

Titles

Red-polished ware bowl, with animal-head and sun disc attachments

Maker(s)

Unknown

Entities

Categories

Description

Tulip shaped ritual vessel

Measurements and weight

Depth: 0.15 m
Height: 0.172 m
Width: 0.174 m

Find spot

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1939) by Stewart, J. R.

Dating

Early Cypriot
Bronze Age
-2400 BCE - -2201 BCE

Note

Red-polished ware

Materials used in production

Clay

References and bibliographic entries

Related exhibitions

Identification numbers

Accession number: GR.5y.1939
Primary reference Number: 69477
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 15 June 2023 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Antiquities

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Red-polished ware bowl, with animal-head and sun disc attachments" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/69477 Accessed: 2024-11-05 16:45:19

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/69477 |title=Red-polished ware bowl, with animal-head and sun disc attachments |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-05 16:45:19|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-69477

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant49/GR_5Y_1939_1_201812_amt49_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Red-polished ware bowl, with animal-head and sun disc attachments"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Red-polished ware bowl, with animal-head and sun disc attachments</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>
    

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...