Bowl Rim Sherd
Middle-Late Bronze Age2200 BCE - 1200 BCE
Clay
1 3/4 x 3 x 2 5/16 in. (4.4 x 7.6 x 5.9 cm)
Bryn Mawr College
Accession Number:
2009.14.859
Other Number(s):
A 455 (Site No.)
Geography:
Asia, Turkey, Tarsus
Classification:
Unclassifiable Artifacts; Artifact Remnants; Sherds
Culture/Nationality:
Prehistoric Anatolian
Collection:
Tarsus Excavation
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- Anatolian - Refers to the culture and styles that developed in antiquity in the geographical area of modern Turkey.
- bowls - Rounded, cuplike, hollow parts of objects, such as the body of a stemmed vessel or the part of a pipe in which tobacco is burned.
- bowls - Rounded vessels that are generally wider than they are high, usually hemispherical or nearly so. A bowl may have a spreading base or foot ring and sometimes two handles or a cover. Distinguished from a cup, which is rather deep than wide.
- rims - The outer edges of a container, especially a vessel, as well as the adjacent narrow margin. A single object may have more than one rim; a goblet has rims on its bowl and its foot.
- sherds - Limited to fragments of pottery or glass.
- vessels - Containers designed to serve as receptacles for a liquid or other substance, usually those of circular section and made of some durable material; especially containers of this nature in domestic use, employed in connection with the preparation or serving of food or drink, and usually of a size suitable for carrying by hand.
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