Pomegranate Glass Flask, Late Bronze Age II Cypriot
Pomegranate Glass Flask, Late Bronze Age II Cypriot, c. 1340–1200 BC. British Museum, 1897,0401.1056.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age II

Pomegranate Glass Flask

Glass flask in the form of a pomegranate. Clear pale green with opaque white, opaque light blue, 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, white, orange, and light blue, combed into upright festoons; (b) on lower half, three trails, white, orange, and light blue, combed into inverted festoons. Core-formed and tooled, trails marvered and combed. Dimensions: Diameter: 6.30 centimetres; Height: 5.80 centimetres max Object Type: flask Techniques: core-formed; trailed; tooled; marvered; combed Condition: Broken and mended; rim and top of neck missing. Thick white enamel-like weathering-coat which almost obscures the colours, but a surface-coat only, not yet causing any decomposition.

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1897,0401.1056, British Museum · Museum record

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