Black Slip II Jug

Black Slip II Jug

Description:

Pottery jug in Black Slip II ware; handmade; depressed globular body with rounded base and wide cylindrical neck with everted rim, forming a spout at the front; handle from shoulder to rim, with thumb-grip projection rising from the rim; two small projections on the shoulder opposite the handle; buff clay with a brown slip; decorated with incised wavy lines at the base of neck and across the body.


Dimensions: Height: 26.50 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Ware: Black Slip Ware


Series: Black Slip II (SCE type VIII B 2a)


Techniques: incised; slipped; handmade

Period:

Middle Bronze Age II

Date:

1850 - 1650 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais

Accession Number:

1884,1210.84