White Painted Anthropomorphic Bottle

White Painted Anthropomorphic Bottle

Description:

Pottery bottle in White Painted V; handmade; piriform anthropomorphic body with rounded base and cylindrical neck with everted rim; string-hole handle at the base of neck is perhaps intended to represent nose and eyes; and applied human arms resting across the body; buff clay with buff slip and brown painted decoration of mainly latticed panels.


Dimensions: Height: 8.20 centimetres


Object Type: bottle


Ware: White Painted Ware


Series: White Painted V (SCE type IX A 1b)


Techniques: handmade; painted; slipped

Period:

Middle Bronze Age III

Date:

1750 - 1550 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1876,0909.10