Early Bronze Age II

Red Polished Flask

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; pair of pierced string holes below the rim on each side; made of fairly coarse buff clay covered with a polished slip (now very worn), fired red on the lower part and black above; incised decoration with traces of lime fill: zig-zags of parallel lines, concentric circles and horizontal parallel lines. Dimensions: Height: 14.50 centimetres Object Type: bottle; flask Ware: Red Polished Ware Series: Red Polished I-II (north coast) (Stewart type VA c1) Techniques: incised; pierced; handmade; polished