Base Ring Ware Spindle Bottle - image 1

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

Date

1650 - 1400 BC

Accession No.

1898,1201.101

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Maroni