Black Slip Ware Flask

Black Slip Ware Flask

Description:

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

Period:

Middle Bronze Age II

Date:

1850 - 1650 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais

Accession Number:

1884,1210.49