Red Polished Flask

Red Polished Flask

Description:

Flask or bottle in Red Polished I (Black-topped) ware: hand-made; 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: horizontal lines at the base of the neck, clusters of dots and oblique parallel and horizontal strokes on the body.


Dimensions: Diameter: 8.10 centimetres; Height: 15 centimetres


Object Type: bottle; flask


Ware: Red Polished Ware


Series: Red Polished I-II (north coast)


Techniques: incised; handmade; polished

Period:

Early Bronze Age II

Date:

2300 - 2100 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Vounous

Accession Number:

1939,0217.24