White Painted Flask

White Painted Flask

Description:

Pottery flask in White Painted IV ware; handmade; oblong straight body with flat base and short tubular neck with everted rim; one handle from neck to shoulder; projections on the sides; buff clay with buff slip and red painted decoration consisting of latticed panels interspersed with horizontal wavy lines.


Dimensions: Height: 16.70 centimetres


Object Type: bottle


Ware: White Painted Ware


Series: White Painted IV (SCE type XIII B 1)


Techniques: painted

Period:

Middle Bronze Age I

Date:

1950 - 1650 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1981,0810.7