Red Polished Flask

Red Polished Flask

Description:

Pottery flask or bottle in Red Polished III (Black Top) pottery; hand-made; depressed globular body on a rounded base; tall, narrow tubular neck and flaring everted rim; two adjacent holes, pierced inwards, on the rim, possibly for suspension; made of buff clay covered with a burnished slip, fired red bwlow and black above; decorated with incised lime-filled rows of zig-zag/ladder motifs; rim slightly chipped at the edges.


Dimensions: Diameter: 7.70 centimetres; Height: 11.30 centimetres


Object Type: flask; bottle


Ware: Red Polished Ware (RP III)


Series: Stewart Type (V B type a)


Techniques: incised; polished

Period:

Early Bronze Age III

Date:

2100 - 1800 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Dhali

Accession Number:

1978,0717.1