Red Polished Ware Juglet - image 1

Early Bronze Age III

Red Polished Ware Juglet

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

Date

2100 - 1900 BC

Accession No.

1937,0318.1

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Found/Acquired: Cyprus (? probably)