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Red Polished Ware Juglet, Early Bronze Age III Cypriot
Red Polished Ware Juglet, Early Bronze Age III Cypriot, c. 2100–1900 BC. British Museum, 1937,0318.1.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Red Polished ware
Shape
JugJuglet
Decoration
Incised
Motifs
Zigzags and chevrons, Ladder pattern, Bands and lines
Material
Clay
Place of production
Cyprus
Date
2100 - 1900 BC

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Found/Acquired: Cyprus (? probably)

Identifiers

Accession no.
1937,0318.1, British Museum · Museum record

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