White Painted Pendent Bottle

White Painted Pendent Bottle

Description:

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

Period:

Middle Bronze Age II

Date:

1850 - 1650 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais

Accession Number:

1884,1210.47