Early Bronze Age III

Red Polished Flask

Pottery flask or bottle in Red Polished III (Black Top) pottery; hand-made; depressed globular body on a rounded base; tall, narrow tubular neck and flaring everted rim; two adjacent holes, pierced inwards, on the rim, possibly for suspension; made of buff clay covered with a burnished slip, fired red bwlow and black above; decorated with incised lime-filled rows of zig-zag/ladder motifs; rim slightly chipped at the edges. Dimensions: Diameter: 7.70 centimetres; Height: 11.30 centimetres Object Type: flask; bottle Ware: Red Polished Ware (RP III) Series: Stewart Type (V B type a) Techniques: incised; polished