Phoenician Bichrome Flask

Phoenician Bichrome Flask

Description:

Pottery Bichrome ware/ Phoenician flask; baggy oval body on a ring base;wheel-made; tall, slightly biconical neck with a groove midway up where the neck meets the handle; single loop handle from shoulder to mid neck; prominent everted funnel rim. Made of pale cream clay, decorated with brown and purple bands (around the body, on the upper neck and inside the rim.


Dimensions: Height: 26.50 centimetres


Object Type: flask


Ware: White Painted Ware


Techniques: painted

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Kition

Accession Number:

1881,0824.46