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Red Polished Flask, Early Bronze Age III Cypriot, Red Polished III
Red Polished Flask, Early Bronze Age III Cypriot, Red Polished III, c. 2100–1800 BC. British Museum, 1978,0717.1.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Early Bronze Age III

Red Polished Flask

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

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Red Polished wareRed Polished III
Shape
Flask
Decoration techniques
Incised, IncisedIncised and white-filled
Motif
Zigzags and chevrons
Material
Clay
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Idalion
Date
2100 - 1800 BC

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Dhali

Identifiers

Accession no.
1978,0717.1, British Museum · Museum record

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