Red Polished Storage Jar

Pottery Red Polished I storage jar or amphora; hand-made; ovoid body on a raised flat base; tall concave neck and everted rim (mouth missing but partly restored); two opposing handles with rounded sections from shoulder to middle part of neck; made of fairly fine buff clay, some inclusions and added straw grog, covered with a burnished red slip, now very worn.

Dimensions: Height: 28 centimetres; Width: 19.20 centimetres max.

Object Type: jar

Ware: Red Polished Ware

Series: Red Polished I-II (north coast) (Stewart type VIIA 2c)

Techniques: slipped; handmade; polished

Early Bronze Age II

1939,0217.25