Early Bronze Age III
Black Polished Juglet
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
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Decoration techniques
- Incised, IncisedIncised and white-filled
- Motif
- Zigzags and chevrons
- Material
- Clay
- Place of production
- Cyprus
- Date
- 2100 - 1750 BC
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