bottle

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Object Type
Museum number: 1899,1229.98
Description: Black Slip III pottery bottle with globular body, cylindrical neck and flattened base and two string hole handles at the base of the neck; hand-made; worn black lustrous slip elaborate incised and stippled decoration; mouth broken away.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1750BC-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 A28
Materials
Ware
Type series
Technique: handmade; incised; stippled; slipped
Dimensions: Height: 9.70 centimetres (max)
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (C92); Malmgren 2003 / Klavdhia-Tremithos. A Middle and Late Cypriote Bronze Age site. (Cat. no. 25, pp. 32, pl. 7c); SCE IV/1C / The Swedish Cyprus Expedition vol. IV. Part IC. The Late Cypriot Bronze Age. Architecture and pottery (VI.D.1, p. 81); Kiely 2011d / Klavdia-Tremithos: A Bronze Age community in south-east Cyprus (A28.1)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition date: 1899
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1899,1229.98

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