Black Polished Juglet

Black Polished Juglet

Description:

Pottery juglet in Black Polished ware; handmade; piriform body with round base and narrow cylindrical neck with funnel rim; round handle from rim to shoulder (now missing); projection on the front mid-body; grey clay with traces of dark grey slip; incised decoration with white lime infill of vertical pendants of zigzags and lines from the neck which is decorated with groups of horizontal lines; rust discoloration; rim broken.


Dimensions: Height: 11 centimetres


Object Type: juglet


Ware: Black Polished Ware


Series: Stewart Type (I B3 c2); Red Polished III


Techniques: handmade; slipped; incised

Period:

Early Bronze Age III

Date:

2100 - 1750 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais

Accession Number:

1884,1210.17