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Base Ring Ware Spindle Bottle, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot, Base Ring I
Base Ring Ware Spindle Bottle, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot, Base Ring I, c. 1650–1400 BC. British Museum, 1898,1201.101.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age I

Base Ring Ware Spindle Bottle

Pottery Base Ring I ware spindle bottle; hand-made; long body tapering to low ring base; long cylindrical neck and horizontal rim; strap handle from mid-neck to shoulder; incised interlacing parallel lines on shoulder and neck; pot mark at the base of the handle in the form of a cross. Made from orange clay with a slip fired unevenly around the body (orange-red to black); surface pitted and base chipped. Dimensions: Height: 18.50 centimetres max Object Type: juglet Ware: Base Ring Ware Series: Base Ring I Techniques: handmade; incised; slipped Inscription: Inscription type: pottery mark Inscription position: base of handle

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Base Ring wareBase Ring I
Shape
BottleSpindle bottle
Decoration
Incised
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)Late Cypriot I
Date
1650 - 1400 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
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Maroni

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Maroni

Identifiers

Accession no.
1898,1201.101, British Museum · Museum record

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