Red Slip Flask

Red Slip Flask

Description:

Pottery flask in Red Slip ware; handmade; flattened ovoid body with a flat base and cylindrical neck with slightly flared rim; two pairs of small projections on either side on the shoulder; made of buff clay with traces of a dark red slip visible; decorated with vertical wavy and parallel lines


Dimensions: Height: 15.20 centimetres


Object Type: flask


Ware: Red Slip Ware (Cyprus)


Techniques: handmade; slipped

Period:

Middle Bronze Age II

Date:

1850 - 1650 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Accession Number:

1928,0117.20