Enkomi Digitisation Project

A1573

Object type
Flask
Tomb No (findspot)
A1573
A1573 A1573
Ware
Mycenaean style
Chronology
1375-1300 B.C.
Dimensions
Height: 14.4cm (pres. Ht.)
Diameter: ca 1.9cm (rim)
Bibliography
Åström 1972, 351
Preservation
Rim missing, one handle partly missing.
Fabric Description
Hard light orange fabric with large sparse inclusions, slightly lustrous and flaked surface.

Description
Globular with two opposing vertical handles from neck to shoulder; spherical body and low ring base.

Decoration
Decorated with a vertical row of parallel short horizontal lines and a small triangle at the upper part, followed by another set of short parallel strokes and a solid-painted larger triangle. On the other side it is decorated with parallel chevrons, and two patterns of a series of parallel short horizontal lines; concentric bands on both sides of the body and a solid painted triangle at the base of the handle in reddish paint.

Comments
Finger depressions at joint of neck to body.