Black Polished Bottle

Black Polished Bottle

Description:

Pottery flask or bottle in Black Polished I ware (corresponding to Red Polished I); ovoid body with a round base; tall tapering neck with everted rim; pierced string holes on the rim on each side; made of fairly coarse buff clay covered with a polished slip (now very worn in places), fired black throughout; incised decoration with traces of lime fill: zig-zags, hatched lozenges, groups of oblique parallel strokes and impressed annules.


Dimensions: Height: 12.50 centimetres


Object Type: bottle


Ware: Black Polished


Series: Black Polished I; Stewart Type V A c1


Techniques: incised; pierced; handmade; slipped; polished

Period:

Early Bronze Age II

Date:

2300 - 2100 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Vounous

Accession Number:

1939,0217.43