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Spindle bottle

Flask bottle or one-handled jug of reddish-brown ware with polished red slip. With flared circular base, tall slim rounded body widening to shoulder, narrow tall neck, rim missing. With one handle in one piece with jug from neck to shoulder. Syrian type made in Egypt.

Flask bottle or one-handled jug of reddish-brown ware with polished red slip. With flared circular base, tall slim rounded body widening to shoulder, narrow tall neck, rim missing. With one handle in one piece with jug from neck to shoulder. Syrian type made in Egypt.

Object Spindle bottle
Provenance Abydos, Egypt
Site Cemetery D, North Section
Period Dynasty XVIII
Material Pottery
Subject Egyptology
Ref. No 1901.36:100
Copyrights Bolton Council