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