Red Polished Flask

Pottery flask or bottle in Red Polished I (Black-topped) ware; hand-made; ovoid-globular body with a round base; tall tapering neck with everted rim; pierced string holes below the rim on each side; made of fairly coarse buff clay covered with a polished slip (now worn in places), fired red on the lower part and black above; incised decoration with traces of lime fill: bands of parallel lines on the middle and lower part of the neck, zig-zags of parallel lines on the neck and body.

Dimensions: Height: 15.50 centimetres

Object Type: bottle; flask

Ware: Red Polished Ware

Series: Red Polished I-II (north coast) (Stewart type VA c1)

Techniques: pierced; incised; handmade; polished

Early Bronze Age II

1939,0217.33