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 |