Proto-White Painted Bottle - image 1

Late Bronze Age III

Proto-White Painted Bottle

Pottery two-handled bottle in Proto-White Painted ware; wheel-made; cylindrical body on a flat base; narrow neck with slightly concave sides; flaring everted rim. Made of light buff clay with a slip fired a similar colour; decorated with matt paint orange to brown paint: bands around the top and bottome of the body and thinner bands on the neck; vertical files of chevrons on the body. Dimensions: Height: 23 centimetres Object Type: bottle Ware: Proto-White Painted Techniques: painted

Date

1100 - 1000 BC

Accession No.

1929,1014.3

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Cyprus