Drab Polished Juglet

Drab Polished Juglet

Description:

Handmade Drab Polished juglet; globular body with small nipple at base; vertical handle and narrow neck mostly missing; small boss opposite handle just below remains of neck; small conical perforation on neck between handle and boss; juglet decorated with incisions filled with white lime: on body, registers of vertical parallel lines, cross-hatching and circles filled with cross-hatching; on neck, registers of parallel lines; slip and lime-fill largely eroded; buff-pink homogeneous clay.


Dimensions: Diameter: 6.20 centimetres max. ; Height: 6.50 centimetres surviving


Object Type: juglet


Ware: Red Polished Ware (Drab Polished)


Techniques: incised; slipped; polished; handmade

Period:

Early Bronze Age III

Date:

2100 - 1800 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Episkopi-Bamboula

Accession Number:

1896,0201.47