Red Polished Flask

Red Polished Flask

Description:

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

Period:

Middle Bronze Age II

Date:

1850 - 1650 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Klavdia

Accession Number:

1899,1229.94