Red Polished Ware Juglet

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