Red Polished Juglet

Red Polished Juglet

Description:

Pottery juglet in Red Polished III ware; handmade; piriform body with round base and wide, cylindrical neck with everted rim; round handle from rim to shoulder; buff clay with orange-red polished slip, deeply incised decoration with traces of white lime infill, cosisting of diagonal groups of lines and shallow zigzags; rim chipped and handle repaired.


Dimensions: Height: 10.50 centimetres


Object Type: juglet


Ware: Red Polished Ware (RP III)


Series: Stewart Type (I B3 c1 variety a)


Techniques: incised; slipped

Period:

Early Bronze Age III

Date:

2100 - 1750 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais

Accession Number:

1884,1210.19