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White Painted Pendent Bottle, Middle Bronze Age II Cypriot
White Painted Pendent Bottle, Middle Bronze Age II Cypriot, c. 1850–1650 BC. British Museum, 1884,1210.47.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Middle Bronze Age II

White Painted Pendent Bottle

Pottery bottle in White Painted Pendent Line Style; handmade; ellipsoidal body with flattened base and short straight neck with horizontal rim; string-hole handle at the base of the neck; buff clay with buff slip; brown painted decoration of alternating groups of two parallel vertical lines and a single wavy line, with encircling lines around the neck. Dimensions: Height: 13.50 centimetres Object Type: bottle Ware: White Painted Ware Series: White Painted Pendent Line Style (SCE type IIB 1c) Techniques: handmade; painted; slipped

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Bronze Age)
Shape
Bottle
Style
Pendent Line Style
Decoration
Painted
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.
1884,1210.47, British Museum · Museum record

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