Tripartite Bowl Food Vessel

Material: [Clay](http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATFullDisplay?find=clay&logic=AND¬e=&english=N&prev_page=1&subjectid=300010439). Accession[ No: HCA 608.](https://www.huntmuseum.com/explore/item/c63e0331-6a3f-3734-8d28-916df3fe24e9/?s%3Dhca+608&pos=1) Current Location: [The Hunt Museum, Limerick](https://www.huntmuseum.com). An early Bronze Age food vessel. The tripartite bowl is largely intact, with a bevelled rim with impressed comb decoration; its external surface is divided into three zones by two cordons or raised bands, decorated with triangular motifs. Either incised or comb-stamped lines decorate each zone. There are incised horizontal grooves immediately under the rim, with a band of vertical grooves below this. There is an area of vertical grooving in the middle of the vessel and horizontal comb-impressed lines on the lower section. There are lime accretions on the vessel surface. The bowl was found in Mitchelstown, Co. Cork. 3rd to 2nd millennium BC Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab