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flask
Object Type
flask
Museum number
1899,1229.114
Description
Pottery spherical bottle in White Painted Latticed Diamond Style ware; hand-made; spherical body; long narrow neck with two string-hole handles at neck base; red lattice pattern on buff polished slip.
Cultures/periods
Middle Cypriot
(II-III)
Production date
1850BC-1650BC
Production place
Made in:
Cyprus
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
The British Museum
Excavated by:
Francis Bertram Welch
Excavated by:
Percy Christian
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Klavdia
, Tomb A15
Materials
pottery
Ware
White Painted Ware
Type series
White Painted Latticed Diamond Style
(SCE type IVa 1a)
Technique
painted
polished
handmade
Dimensions
Height:
11.20 centimetres
Curator's comments
According to Åström, some of the WP III-IV (Latticed Diamond Style) wares were made in the same workshops as WP III-V (String-hole style) vase (SCE IV/1B, 32, note 1).
Bibliographic references
Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum
(C290)
SCE IV/1B / The Swedish Cyprus Expedition. Vol. IV/ 1B The Middle Cypriot Bronze Age
(IV.A.1.a, p33)
Malmgren 2003 / Klavdhia-Tremithos. A Middle and Late Cypriote Bronze Age site.
(Cat. no. 9, pp. 27, pl. 3a)
Kiely 2011d / Klavdia-Tremithos: A Bronze Age community in south-east Cyprus
(A15.1)
Location
Not on display
Acquisition date
1899
Department
Greek and Roman
Registration number
1899,1229.114