Red Lustrous Flask

Red Lustrous Flask

Description:

Pottery Red Lustrous Wheel-made ware lentoid flask; wheel-made; round mouth with collar rim; cylindrical neck; vertical handle with round profile from mid neck to shoulder; body assymetrical with one side almost hemispherical and the other convex; red self-slipped surface and clay; rough multi-directional burnishing to a low lustre.


Dimensions: Diameter: 14.40 centimetres; Height: 19.50 centimetres


Object Type: flask


Ware: Red Lustrous Wheel-made Ware


Techniques: burnished; wheel-made; self-slip

Period:

Late Bronze Age II

Date:

1450 - 1200 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Enkomi

Accession Number:

1897,0401.909