White Painted Anthropomorphic Bottle

White Painted Anthropomorphic Bottle

Description:

Pottery bottle in White Painted VI ware; handmade; anthropomorphic body with rudimentary arms and feet; cylindrical neck with horizontal rim; spout at the front and a handle from rim to shoulder at the back; orange-buff clay and slip with red painted decoration comprising latticed panels on the body and groups of encircling lines on the neck and handle


Dimensions: Height: 19.30 centimetres


Object Type: bottle


Ware: White Painted Ware


Series: White Painted VI (SCE type Xa)


Techniques: handmade; painted; slipped

Period:

Late Bronze Age I

Date:

1650 - 1550 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Dhali

Accession Number:

1868,0905.31