Tripartite bowl food vessel

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Material: Clay. Accession No: HCA 608. Current Location: The Hunt Museum, Limerick.  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  

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The Hunt Museum preserves and exhibits the original artefacts gathered, over a lifetime, by John and Gertrude Hunt and known as the Hunt Collection. The Museum also displays its own collections, as well as visiting exhibitions of Local, National and International significance with the overall aim of maximising their cultural and educational potential for the people of Limerick and Ireland.

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