Black Slip Ware Flask - image 1

Middle Bronze Age II

Black Slip Ware Flask

Pottery flask in Black Slip II ware; handmade; long ovoid body with convex cylindrical neck and a flat everted rim; strap handle from base of neck to mid-body with stringhole projection opposite; a pair of projections at the shoulder on opposing sides with two sets of stringhole projections on the lower body; buff clay with worn brownish black slip; incised decoration or horizontal parallel line and wavy lines. Dimensions: Height: 24 centimetres Object Type: flask Ware: Black Slip Ware Series: Black Slip II (SCE type XII B 1a) Techniques: handmade; slipped; incised

Date

1850 - 1650 BC

Accession No.

1884,1210.49

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Phoenikiais