White Painted Flask

White Painted Flask

Description:

Pottery flask in White Painted IV ware; ellipsoidal body with a flattened base and cylindrical neck with a horizontal rim, now chipped; high loop-shaped handle from rim to shoulder; string-hole projection at base of the neck; buff clay with buff slip; painted on the body with a brown chequerboard decoration, with encircling lines and wavy lines on the neck.


Dimensions: Height: 24 centimetres


Object Type: bottle


Ware: White Painted Ware


Series: White Painted IV (SCE type XIV A 1a)


Techniques: handmade; painted; slipped

Period:

Middle Bronze Age II

Date:

1850 - 1650 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais

Accession Number:

1884,1210.50