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White Painted String-hole Askos, Middle Bronze Age II Cypriot
White Painted String-hole Askos, Middle Bronze Age II Cypriot, c. 1850–1650 BC. British Museum, 1868,0905.30.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Middle Bronze Age II

White Painted String-hole Askos

Pottery askos in White Painted String-hole Style;handmade; body is bird-shaped with small loop handle on the top, with the head formed from a beak spout; there are seven string-holes around the centre of the body; made of orange-buff clay with a yellowish buff slip and painted with a red hatched decoration. Dimensions: Length: 14.80 centimetres Object Type: askos Ware: White Painted Ware Series: White Painted String-hole Style (SCE type XV a) Techniques: handmade; painted; slipped

Classification

Object type
Terracotta figure-vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Bronze Age)
Shape
Special and ritual vesselsAskos
Style
String-hole Style
Decoration
Painted
Motif
Bird
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeMiddle Cypriot (Middle Bronze Age)
Date
1850 - 1650 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Idalion

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Dhali

Identifiers

Accession no.
1868,0905.30, British Museum · Museum record

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