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Red Polished Flask, Early Bronze Age II Cypriot, Red Polished I
Red Polished Flask, Early Bronze Age II Cypriot, Red Polished I, c. 2300–2100 BC. British Museum, 1939,0217.24.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Early Bronze Age II

Red Polished Flask

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

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Red Polished wareRed Polished I
Shape
Flask
Decoration techniques
Incised, IncisedIncised and white-filled
Motifs
Dots and dot rows, Bands and lines
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeEarly Cypriot (Early Bronze Age)
Date
2300 - 2100 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Bellapais-Vounous

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Vounous

Identifiers

Accession no.
1939,0217.24, British Museum · Museum record

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