Red Polished Miniature Bottle

Red Polished Miniature Bottle

Description:

Pottery miniature bottle in Red Polished III ware; handmade; depressed ovoid body with a round base and a narrow cylindrical neck with an everted rim; pair of opposing lug handles, with pierced string holes; made of buff clay covered with a burnished dark red slip, decorated with lime-filled incisions: zig-zags and hatched squares between horizontal bands.


Dimensions: Height: 12 centimetres


Object Type: jar; bottle


Ware: Red Polished Ware (RP III)


Series: Stewart Type (VII D i2)


Techniques: incised; pierced; handmade; slipped

Period:

Middle Bronze Age II

Date:

1900 - 1750 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais

Accession Number:

1884,1210.24