Black Slip III Flask

Black Slip III Flask

Description:

Pottery juglet or flask in Black Slip III; flattened oval body with convex sides and a flat base; narrow cylindrical neck with funnel-shaped rim, chipped on one side; string-hole handle at base of neck; made in greenish buff clay with traces of a black slip; decorated with incised patterns of groups of horizontal, parallel zigzag and straight lines with traces of whitish paste filling.


Dimensions: Height: 12.50 centimetres


Object Type: juglet; flask


Ware: Black Slip Ware


Series: Black Slip III


Techniques: handmade; incised; slipped

Period:

Middle Bronze Age III

Date:

1750 - 1650 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Dhali

Accession Number:

1868,0905.2