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White Painted Cross Line Bottle, Middle Bronze Age III Cypriot
White Painted Cross Line Bottle, Middle Bronze Age III Cypriot, c. 1750–1550 BC. British Museum, 1897,0401.827.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Middle Bronze Age III

White Painted Cross Line Bottle

Pottery White Painted Cross Line Style bottle with two string-hole projections either side of cylindrical neck with flaring rim; flattened base; hand-made; body and neck painted with orangey-brown to brown sets of crossed oblique lines. Dimensions: Diameter: 6.60 centimetres; Height: 9.80 centimetres Object Type: bottle Ware: White Painted Ware Series: White Painted Cross Line Style (SCE type III A 1a) Techniques: painted; slipped; handmade

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Bronze Age)
Shape
Bottle
Style
Cross Line Style
Decoration
Painted
Material
Clay
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Enkomi
Date
1750 - 1550 BC

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Enkomi

Identifiers

Accession no.
1897,0401.827, British Museum · Museum record
Report entry
Enkomi, BM Tomb 10, no. 1897.4-1.827Tatton-Brown 2003, p. 14

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