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Pomegranate Glass Flask, Late Bronze Age III Cypriot
Pomegranate Glass Flask, Late Bronze Age III Cypriot, c. 1340–1050 BC. British Museum, 1897,0401.1218.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age III

Pomegranate Glass Flask

Glass flask in the form of a pomegranate. Clear wine-coloured (?) with opaque white and opaque orange trails. Splayed rim formed by six triangular, pointed calyx-tips, bent outwards; cylindrical neck joining shoulder in curve; almost spherical body with rounded bottom. On body two groups of opaque combed trails: (a) on upper half, three trails, orange, white, and orange, combed into upright festoons; (b) on lower half, three trails, white, orange, and white, combed into inverted festoons. Core-formed and tooled, trails marvered and combed. Dimensions: Diameter: 7.50 centimetres; Height: 8.60 centimetres max Object Type: flask Techniques: core-formed; trailed Condition: Broken and mended; only two fragmentary calyx-tips extant. Glass of body and of trails completely decomposed, body to cream colour, trails to grey and brown respectively.

Classification

Object type
Glass vessel
Shape
Flask
Material
Glass and faienceGlass
Period
probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)
Date
1340 - 1050 BC
Findspot
Enkomi

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Enkomi

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Accession no.
1897,0401.1218, British Museum · Museum record

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