Red Lustrous Lentoid Flask - image 1

Late Bronze Age II

Red Lustrous Lentoid Flask

Pottery Red Lustrous Wheel-made ware lentoid flask; wheel-made; flaring mouth with collar rim; cylindrical neck; vertical handle with oval profile from mid neck to shoulder; body assymetrical with one side almost hemispherical and the other convex; fracture along bottom edge of carination possibly indicating formed in two pieces; red self-slipped surface and clay; rough multi-directional burnishing to a low lustre. Dimensions: Diameter: 13.10 centimetres; Height: 19.20 centimetres Object Type: flask Ware: Red Lustrous Wheel-made Ware Techniques: burnished; wheel-made; self-slip

Date

1450 - 1200 BC

Accession No.

1897,0401.910

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Enkomi