This shallow bowl has traces of red pigment preserved on the inside. The bowl was the commonest type of marble vessel in the Early Cycladic II period. Most bowls are shallow and range from 10 to 20 cm in diameter, although smaller or much bigger examples do exist. A large number of bowls comes from graves, but several have been found in settlements; hundreds of fragments −many of unusually large dimensions− have come to light at the site of Kavos-Daskalio on Keros, most probably a place of ritual, where a plethora of objects of symbolic significance had been deposited after being deliberately broken.