Early Bronze Age II
Black Polished Bottle
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
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Shape
- Bottle
- Decoration techniques
- Incised, IncisedIncised and white-filled, Impressed and punctured
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- probablyBronze AgeEarly Cypriot (Early Bronze Age)
- Date
- 2300 - 2100 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
- Findspot
- Bellapais-Vounous
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