Milk-bowl
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Object Label
The inhabitants of Cyprus exported bowls with wishbone handles throughout the fourteenth and thirteenth centuries B.C.E. Egyptologists call them milk bowls because of their milky coloration, but they do not know how the bowls were used.
Caption
Cypriot. Milk-bowl, ca. 1400–1225 B.C.E.. Terracotta, slip, 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (10.8 x 16.5 x 21.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Frederic H. Betts, 22.14. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.22.14_erg2.jpg)
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Culture
Title
Milk-bowl
Date
ca. 1400–1225 B.C.E.
Period
Late Cypriot IIB to late Cypriot IIC Period
Geography
Place made: Cyprus
Medium
Terracotta, slip
Classification
Dimensions
4 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (10.8 x 16.5 x 21.6 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Frederic H. Betts
Accession Number
22.14
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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