Red Polished Bottle
Description: | Flask or bottle in Red Polished I (Black-Topped) ware; hand-made; ovoid-globular body with a round base; tall tapering neck with everted rim; pairs of pierced string holes below the rim on each side; made of fairly coarse buff clay covered with a polished slip, fired red on the lower part and black above; incised decoration with traces of lime fill: zig-zags of parallel strokes on the body and neck, a horiozntal band with oblique strokes above and below at the base of the neck. Dimensions: Diameter: 6.60 centimetres; Height: 12.50 centimetres Object Type: bottle; flask Ware: Red Polished Ware Series: Red Polished I-II (north coast) (Stewart type VAc1) Techniques: incised; pierced; handmade; slipped; polished |
Period: | Early Bronze Age II |
Date: | 2300 - 2100 BC |
Collection: | British Museum |
Provenance: | Vounous |
Accession Number: | 1939,0217.32 |