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Description: | This flask from Cyprus has four pairs of holes for attaching strings to carry it and a beaked spout to help with pouring. It is made of a brown clay, decorated with a coating of off-white slip (liquid clay) and painted black lines. Flasks have been around for centuries. This one may have been used as a feeding cup. The earliest known feeding cup', discovered in Phoenikas, Cyprus, is in the British Museum. It looks like a teapot. Other examples from the Babylonian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan and ancient Judaic periods have been found at archaeological sites, particularly in graves of young children. This made archaeologists think they were used for feeding mushy or liquid foods. Some look like oil lamps or miniature wine jugs. Flasks were made from pottery until the Egyptians developed the ability to blow glass from hollow rods, about 2250-2300 years ago. The Romans perfected the technique a couple of centuries later, making clear glass by removing impurities from the raw materials. Glass feeding vessels were only briefly fashionable, however, and did not become popular again until the mid 1800s.
A terracotta flask decorated with black lines and with four pairs of string-holders. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Drink Decorative arts Archaeology Bronze age | Temporal: | Middle Bronze Age | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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