Black Polished Miniature Bottle, Middle Bronze Age I Cypriot — Black Polished Miniature Bottle, Middle Bronze Age I Cypriot, c. 2000–1750 BC. British Museum, 2001,0423.2.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Middle Bronze Age I

Black Polished Miniature Bottle

Pottery miniature bottle of Black Polished ware; hand-made; cylindrical neck with cutaway spout; small pierced vertical lug at spout base; elongated ovoid body with flattened base; highly lustrous burnished black slip; decorated with incised geometric patters infilled with lime paste, including sets of three or four horizontal bands on neck and shoulder; body decorated with band of horizontal lines and circles, framed by horizontal bands of lozenges, band of horizontal lines crossed by pairs of vertical lines at base; fabric dark grey; small chip at top of spout. Dimensions: Height: 8.80 centimetres; Width: 3.70 centimetres Object Type: bottle Ware: Black Polished Techniques: handmade; slipped; burnished; incised

Classification

Object type: Pottery vessel
Ware: Black Polished ware
Shape: Bottle
Decoration techniques: Incised, IncisedIncised and white-filled
Motif: Bands and lines
Material: Clay
Place of production: Cyprus
Date: 2000 - 1750 BC

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Accession No.

2001,0423.2

Collection

Provenance

Found/Acquired: Cyprus

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