Flask

Pilgrim Flask

49-12-664

Location: On Display in the Eastern Mediterranean Gallery

From: Cyprus | Kourion | Kaloriziki

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 49-12-664
Current Location Eastern Mediterranean Gallery - On Display
Provenience Cyprus | Kourion | Kaloriziki
Site Name Kourion
Locus Tomb 25:57
Period Proto-White Painted
Date Made 1050–850 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Proto-White Painted Ware
Description

Complete and intact. Narrow neck with rectangular shoulders to mid-neck; funnel mouth. One face of body flattened terminating in a knob; the other elongated with flattened termination (trunkated cone). Clay: gritty light orange-brown; sandy. Paint: thick purple-brown. Paint on upper and lower neck, handles barred; front, back and side divided into zones by a thick and narrow band. Decoration: interlaced shaded triangles resembling wickerwork.

Height 14.3 cm
Width 10.2 cm
Depth 9.5 cm
Credit Line Cyprus Expedition, J. F. Daniel, 1949
Other Number P52 - Field No SF

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