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White Painted Anthropomorphic Bottle, Middle Bronze Age III Cypriot anthropomorphic vessel, White Painted V
White Painted Anthropomorphic Bottle, Middle Bronze Age III Cypriot, White Painted V, c. 1750–1550 BC. British Museum, 1876,0909.10.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Middle Bronze Age III

White Painted Anthropomorphic Bottle

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

Classification

Object type
Terracotta figure-vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Bronze Age)White Painted V (Bronze Age)
Shape
Special and ritual vesselsAnthropomorphic vessel
Decoration techniques
Painted, Relief and appliedModelled figures and attachments
Motifs
Lattice and checkerboard, Human figure
Material
Clay
Place of production
Cyprus
Date
1750 - 1550 BC

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Cyprus

Identifiers

Accession no.
1876,0909.10, British Museum · Museum record

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