Red Polished Ware Juglet
Description: | Red Polished ware pottery juglet; hand-made; globular body on a rounded base; narrow cylindrical neck with a flaring everted rim; slightly pinched mouth (to aid pouring?); single vertical handle curving from shoulder to rim; buff clay covered in a burnished reddish slip, decorated with geometric motifs (zig-zags, ladders, bands of parallel lines) on the upper body and neck; slip very worn all over. Dimensions: Height: 11 centimetres Object Type: juglet Ware: Red Polished Ware Series: Stewart Type (I B3 c1) Techniques: incised; handmade; slipped; burnished |
Period: | Early Bronze Age III |
Date: | 2100 - 1900 BC |
Collection: | British Museum |
Provenance: | Found/Acquired: Cyprus (? probably) |
Accession Number: | 1937,0318.1 |