
Late Bronze Age II
Feathered Glass Bottle
Globular glass bottle with cylindrical neck and ring base. Broad rim, rectangular in cross-section with over half broken off; trace of lip-spout; cylindrical neck meeting shoulder in gentle curve; globular body; base-disc. Trace of lower handle-attachment on shoulder, a little out of diametric alignment with spout, unless both spout and attachment were wide ones. Upper handle-attachment was probably on missing portion of neck, below rim. Clear dark blue(?) with opaque white and opaque orange trails. On neck, festooned trails, white and orange; on body a feather pattern of the same, bounded above and below by horizontal orange trails. Core-formed and tooled, trails marvered and combed. Dimensions: Diameter: 6.40 centimetres; Height: 7.20 centimetres Object Type: bottle Techniques: core-formed; trailed; tooled; marvered; combed Condition: Broken and mended; part of rim and neck and almost the whole handle missing. Whitish enamellike weathering-coat all over, rendering colours almost indecipherable.
Classification
- Object type
- Glass vessel
- Shape
- Bottle
- Material
- Glass and faienceGlass
- Period
- probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)Late Cypriot II
- Date
- 1450 - 1200 BC
- Findspot
- Maroni
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British Museum, 1898,1201.135 (“bottle”)
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