Bottles, defined as narrow-necked vessels with no handles or two handles, are a shape we take for granted in the present day.

In ancient cultures, these shapes are often not ideal, due to the complexity in manufacturing a slender tall profile which is robust, with the problem of such slender shapes not having significant internal volumes.

Bottles in ancient Cyprus, especially in certain Bronze Age periods as we will soon discover, often were made to look stylistically beautiful - likely to signify the high value of the small amount of contents held within.