Red Polished Incised Flask

Flask or bottle in Red Polished I (Black-Topped) ware; hand-made; depressed globular body with a round base; tall tapering neck with everted rim; pair of pierced string holes below the rim on one 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 and concentric circles alternating with bands of horizontal lines on the neck and body.

Dimensions: Height: 17 centimetres

Object Type: bottle; flask

Ware: Red Polished Ware

Series: Red Polished I-II (north coast) (Stewart Type V A c1)

Techniques: incised; pierced; handmade; slipped

Early Bronze Age II

1939,0217.40