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White Painted flattish oval flask, Middle Bronze Age II Cypriot
White Painted flattish oval flask, Middle Bronze Age II Cypriot, c. 1850–1650 BC. Ashmolean Museum, AN1888.1250.Image © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Middle Bronze Age II

White Painted flattish oval flask

White Painted flattish oval flask Dimensions: 11.43cm (height)4.572cm (diameter) Object Type: container > vessel > flask

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Bronze Age)
Shape
Flask
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeMiddle Cypriot (Middle Bronze Age)
Date
1850 - 1650 BC
Place of production
Cyprus

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Provenance

  • Nicosia, Nicosia, Nicosia-Eylenja, Leontari Vouno (possible; tomb) (place of excavation) Paphos, Kouklia, Palaepaphos (possible; tomb) (place of excavation)

Identifiers

Accession no.
AN1888.1250, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology · Museum record

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