Bottle

For storing oil.

Alabastron made of buff, fine-grained hard-fired clay. Thin, matte, black paint. Rounded bottom with slight tip in the centre; pyriform body with one small vertical handle attached below rim; broad everted rim. Decoration consists of a nine-petal rosette on the base centred on the bottom and horizontal bands on body. In the upper half is a stippled zone and immediately beneath the rim there are vertical strokes. Two concentric circles on top surface of rim.