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White Painted Flask, Middle Bronze Age II Cypriot, White Painted IV
White Painted Flask, Middle Bronze Age II Cypriot, White Painted IV, c. 1850–1650 BC. British Museum, 1884,1210.44.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Middle Bronze Age II

White Painted Flask

Pottery bottle in White Painted IV ware; handmade; oval body with flat base and short, narrow neck with flared rim; flat handle from mid-neck to shoulder; buff clay with buff slip and orange-brown decoration; panels of latticed diamonds interspersed with parallel zigzag lines. Dimensions: Height: 11.50 centimetres Object Type: flask Ware: White Painted Ware Series: White Painted IV (SCE type XIIIB 1e) Techniques: painted; handmade; slipped

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Bronze Age)White Painted IV (Bronze Age)
Shape
Flask
Decoration
Painted
Motifs
Lattice and checkerboard, Triangles and lozenges
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeMiddle Cypriot (Middle Bronze Age)
Date
1850 - 1650 BC
Place of production
Cyprus

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Phoenikiais

Identifiers

Accession no.
1884,1210.44, British Museum · Museum record

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