Red Polished Double-Spout Jug, Early Bronze Age III Cypriot, Red Polished III — Red Polished Double-Spout Jug, Early Bronze Age III Cypriot, Red Polished III, c. 2100–1900 BC. British Museum, 1871,0210.1.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Early Bronze Age III

Red Polished Double-Spout Jug

Pottery jug with double-spout in Red Polished ware; hand-made. Ovoid gourd-like body on a rounded base; two tall cylindrical necks with cutaway mouths; single handle with an oval profile branching into two bridges to the bottom of the cutaway mouths. Made of pink-buff fabric and covered with a lustrous burnished red slip; incised with lime-filled incised geometric motifs: bands of horizontal lines on the lower body, spouts and hand; panels of vertical zig-zags and hatched triangles. Some restoration (at joins) and the surface is worn in places. Dimensions: Height: 30.48 centimetres Object Type: jug Ware: Red Polished Ware Series: Red Polished III; Stewart Type (Class I Group A3 Type b) Techniques: incised; handmade

Classification

Object type: Pottery vessel
Ware: Red Polished wareRed Polished III
Shape: JugMulti-necked jug
Decoration techniques: Incised, IncisedIncised and white-filled
Material: Clay
Place of production: Cyprus
Findspot: Alambra
Date: 2100 - 1900 BC

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Accession No.

1871,0210.1

Collection

Provenance

Alambra

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