Middle Bronze Age II

Red Polished Flask

Pottery flask in Red Polished ware; hand-made; squat globular body; narrow neck with pierced lugs treated anthropomorphically; four pierced ear-handles round the body; buff clay and polished red slip; incised decoration (parallel and wavy lines from neck to base; groups of short parallel lines arranged in lozenge shapes, rather like tattoo-marks) filled with white lime; surface very worn on one side of the vase. Dimensions: Height: 2.50 centimetres Object Type: flask Ware: Red Polished Ware Series: Stewart Type (I B4 type n); Red Polished III Techniques: incised; polished; slipped; handmade