Plain White Ware Flask

Plain White Ware Flask

Description:

Plain White ware flask; wheel-made; biconical body on a wide raised disc base; narrow concave neck with a squared rim; single handle (oval section) from shoulder to rim. Made of fairly fine light buff clay, surface fired the same colour throughout. Body is intact but cracked; the surface is encrusted in many places on the upper body.


Dimensions: Diameter: 2.50 centimetres mouth ; Diameter: 12.50 centimetres; Height: 9.30 centimetres


Object Type: flask


Ware: Plain White Ware (Plain White V-VI)


Techniques: wheel-made

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 400 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Accession Number:

2013,5023.3