Early Bronze Age II

Red Polished Bottle

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