Base Ring Strainer Flask
Description: | Pottery strainer flask or askos in Base Ring ware; globular-ovoid body on a ring base; two spouts joined by a basket handle, one in form of bull-head with pellet eyes, the other is wide and cylindrical bulging slightly mid-way up and containing a strainer made from perforating a disc of disc across the mouth; matt reddish-brown clay decorated with stripes of white paint across the body. Dimensions: Height: 13.50 centimetres Object Type: flask; askos Ware: Base Ring Ware Series: Base Ring II Techniques: handmade; slipped; painted; hand-modelled; perforated |
Period: | Late Bronze Age II |
Date: | 1450 - 1200 BC |
Collection: | British Museum |
Provenance: | Found/Acquired: Cyprus (likely) |
Accession Number: | 1938,0413.1 |