White Painted Bottle - image 1

Middle Bronze Age III

White Painted Bottle

Pottery bottle in White Painted IV ware; handmade; oval body with a flat base and a short, narow neck with a slightly everted rim; two string-hole handles at the base of the neck on opposite sides; buff clay with a buff slip with brown painted decoration on encircling lines on the neck, parallel lines, wavy lines and hatched diamonds vertically on the body and groups of parallellines crossing at right angles on the underside. Dimensions: Height: 10 centimetres Object Type: bottle Ware: White Painted Ware Series: White Painted IV (SCE type XIII B1e) Techniques: painted

Date

1750 - 1550 BC

Accession No.

1876,0909.13

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Dhali