Phoenician Pilgrim Flask

Phoenician Pilgrim Flask

Description:

Pottery pilgrim flask, probably Phoenician ware; wheel-made; lentoid body with a narrow neck expanding to a trumpet mouth with a plain rim. made of fairly coarse and heavy buff clay, decorated with black pained: concentric circles on both sides of the body, bars on the handle.


Dimensions: Height: 12.50 centimetres


Object Type: flask


Techniques: painted

Period:

Geometric I

Date:

1050 - 850 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1869,0604.3