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 |