White Painted Flask - image 1

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

Date

1850 - 1650 BC

Accession No.

1884,1210.44

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Phoenikiais