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Marble spouted bowl
Technical analysis: Ultraviolet-induced visible light luminescence examination
This narrow, conical, white marble bowl is intact except for minor losses at the rim. There is a single solid, horizontal lug below the rim that most likely would have served as a handle for pouring. Three concentric incisions decorate the top of the vessel. This vessel is a deeply carved example of a common Early Cycladic II bowl type.(1)
Calcareous accretions and traces of root marks are evident on the exterior surface, and the interior is worn and pitted.
Sandy MacGillivray and Wendy Walker
(1) See Getz-Gentle, Pat. 1996. Stone Vessels of the Cyclades in the Early Bronze Age. pl. 56, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.
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