Late Bronze Age II

Base Ring Strainer Flask

Pottery strainer flask or askos in Base Ring ware; globular-ovoid body on a ring base; two spouts joined by a basket handle, one in form of bull-head with pellet eyes, the other is wide and cylindrical bulging slightly mid-way up and containing a strainer made from perforating a disc of disc across the mouth; matt reddish-brown clay decorated with stripes of white paint across the body. Dimensions: Height: 13.50 centimetres Object Type: flask; askos Ware: Base Ring Ware Series: Base Ring II Techniques: handmade; slipped; painted; hand-modelled; perforated