Middle Bronze Age II
Red Polished Flask
Pottery flask in Red Polished ware; hand-made; squat globular body; narrow neck with pierced lugs treated anthropomorphically; four pierced ear-handles round the body; buff clay and polished red slip; incised decoration (parallel and wavy lines from neck to base; groups of short parallel lines arranged in lozenge shapes, rather like tattoo-marks) filled with white lime; surface very worn on one side of the vase. Dimensions: Height: 2.50 centimetres Object Type: flask Ware: Red Polished Ware Series: Stewart Type (I B4 type n); Red Polished III Techniques: incised; polished; slipped; handmade
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Shape
- Flask
- Decoration
- Incised
- Motif
- Wavy lines
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- probablyBronze AgeMiddle Cypriot (Middle Bronze Age)
- Date
- 1850 - 1650 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
- Findspot
- Klavdhia-Tremithos
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