flask

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Object Type
Museum number: 1899,1229.20
Description: Pottery lentoid flask in White Painted ware; wheel-made; pair of opposed arching handles; made of fine decorated clay, main surface fired a buff-cream colour, with brown painted decoration: concentric circles on the body.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 900 BC-700 BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: The British Museum; Excavated by: Percy Christian; Excavated by: Francis Bertram Welch
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Kouklia, tomb 20
Materials
Ware
Type series
Technique: painted; slipped; wheel-made
Dimensions: Height: 10.50 centimetres
Curator's comments: The number 20 pencilled on the body may be a tomb number
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (C799); SCE IV/2 / The Swedish Cyprus Expedition. Vol. IV. Part 2. The Cypro-Geometric, Cypro-Archaic and Cypro-Classical periods. (fig. XIX, 17)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition date: 1899
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1899,1229.20

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