Cypriot Pottery Flask

Cypriot Pottery Flask, Middle Cypriot II 1800-1725 BC. A hand-made buffware pottery flask of globular form with elongated tubular neck, the body decorated in dark brown painted geometric ornament composed of crosshatched fields and linear banding. The neck ornamented with horizontal painted bands. Multiple pierced lug handles and applied plastic ornament to the shoulder and neck suggest the vessel may have functioned as a suspension flask or ritual pouring vessel. H. 7" W. 3 1/4" (17.8 cm x 8.3 cm)..