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Middle Bronze Age II

White Painted Askos

Pottery ring-vase in White Painted III ware; hand-made; horizontal tubular body on three feet; large cylindrical spout with everted rim; arched basket handle; made of buff clay with a white slip decorated in red and black paint: hatched panels and chequers on body, ladder pattern on handle, parallel bands on the spout, intersected by perpendicular lines. Dimensions: Height: 15 centimetres Object Type: askos Ware: White Painted Ware Series: White Painted III; Stewart Type (WP III, Class III F type k); SCE type (SCE type IXa) Techniques: painted; handmade; slipped

Date

1850 - 1750 BC

Accession No.

1888,0927.2

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Ayia Paraskevi