Red Polished III Juglet

Red Polished III Juglet

Description:

Pottery juglet in Red Polished III ware; hand-made; piriform body on a round base with a medium length, narrow neck ending in a funnel mouth; oval handle from rim to shoulder; made of pale clay, with an orange-red slip burnished to a high lustre; decorated with white-filled incisions, the motifs consisting of hatched lozenges and groups of parallel diagonal lines in vertical panels separated by vertical lines.


Dimensions: Height: 14 centimetres


Object Type: juglet


Ware: Red Polished Ware


Series: Red Polished III; Stewart Type (Stewart type I B3 c1 variety a)


Techniques: incised; slipped; polished

Period:

Early Bronze Age III

Date:

2100 - 1750 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Ayia Paraskevi

Accession Number:

1888,0927.26