White Painted Bottle

White Painted Bottle

Description:

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

Period:

Middle Bronze Age III

Date:

1750 - 1550 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Dhali

Accession Number:

1876,0909.13