White Painted String-hole Juglet

White Painted String-hole Juglet

Description:

Pottery juglet in White Painted String-hole style; globular body with round base and tapering cylindrical neck which ended in a beaked mouth; small loop handle from neck to shoulder; two string-holes on neck; buff clay with pale buff slip; the decoration in fugitive black paint comprises diagonal lines in triangular or rectangular panels.


Dimensions: Height: 11.50 centimetres


Object Type: juglet


Ware: White Painted Ware


Series: White Painted String-hole Style (SCE type V E 1b)


Techniques: handmade; painted; slipped

Period:

Middle Bronze Age II

Date:

1850 - 1650 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais

Accession Number:

1884,1210.196