bottle

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Object Type
Museum number: 1897,0401.827
Description: Pottery White Painted Cross Line Style bottle with two string-hole projections either side of cylindrical neck with flaring rim; flattened base; hand-made; body and neck painted with orangey-brown to brown sets of crossed oblique lines.
Cultures/periods: Middle Cypriot III (?); Late Cypriot I (?)
Production date: 1750BC-1550BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Enkomi, tomb 10
Materials
Ware
Type series
Technique: painted; slipped; handmade
Dimensions: Diameter: 6.60 centimetres; Height: 9.80 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (C292); SCE IV/1B / The Swedish Cyprus Expedition. Vol. IV/ 1B The Middle Cypriot Bronze Age (III A 1a, p. 65); Crewe 2009 / Enkomi (10.2)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Funder name
Acquisition date: 1897
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1897,0401.827

Free entry