White Painted Flask

White Painted Flask

Description:

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

Period:

Middle Bronze Age II

Date:

1850 - 1650 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais

Accession Number:

1884,1210.44