Ritzdekor
2000 - 1800 v. Chr.
The small flask is of black polished ware, which appeared at the end of the Early Bronze Age. The usually small-sized vessels display the characteristic forms and decorations of red polished ware. This type, derived from gourd bottles of the type still in use on Cyprus, is also known in red and black polished ware.The small flask has a pear-shaped, depressed, bulging body with a flattened bottom and a carinated, long neck, growing narrower at the top, with a straight, round mouth. At the enge of the mouth there is a small string-hole. The incised decoration on the body consists of a circumambient horizontal zigzag band of four parallel lines, each with three transversal strokes between the upper angles of zigzag; the body is framed on the shoulder by three, at the base by four circumambient, parallel, horizontal lines. On the neck are three groups of parallel, horizontal lines: five beneath the mouth, interrupted by the perforated lug, and four each surrounding the middle of the neck and above the neckline.
A. Bernhard-Walcher u.a., Die Sammlung zyprischer Antiken im KHM. Sammlungskataloge des KHM Bd. 2, Wien 1999
The small flask is of black polished ware, which appeared at the end of the Early Bronze Age. The usually small-sized vessels display the characteristic forms and decorations of red polished ware. This type, derived from gourd bottles of the type still in use on Cyprus, is also known in red and black polished ware.The small flask has a pear-shaped, depressed, bulging body with a flattened bottom and a carinated, long neck, growing narrower at the top, with a straight, round mouth. At the enge of the mouth there is a small string-hole. The incised decoration on the body consists of a circumambient horizontal zigzag band of four parallel lines, each with three transversal strokes between the upper angles of zigzag; the body is framed on the shoulder by three, at the base by four circumambient, parallel, horizontal lines. On the neck are three groups of parallel, horizontal lines: five beneath the mouth, interrupted by the perforated lug, and four each surrounding the middle of the neck and above the neckline.
A. Bernhard-Walcher u.a., Die Sammlung zyprischer Antiken im KHM. Sammlungskataloge des KHM Bd. 2, Wien 1999
Time:
2000 - 1800 v. Chr.
Object Name
Fläschchen der Black Polished Ware
Culture
Zyprisch
Location of discovery:
Ayia Paraskevi (Nikosia, Zypern)
Material/technology:
Ton hellgrau; Oberfläche geglätter; Überzug schwarz, matt; Ritzungen weiß eingelegt. Handgeformt.
Dimensions:
H. 8,8 cm, Dm. 5,1 cm
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Antikensammlung
Invs.
Antikensammlung, IV 1791
Provenance
Ohnefalsch-Richter, Max; 1890 Tausch
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