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Red Slip Juglet, Middle Bronze Age II Cypriot
Red Slip Juglet, Middle Bronze Age II Cypriot, c. 1850–1650 BC. British Museum, 1868,0905.6.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Middle Bronze Age II

Red Slip Juglet

Pottery juglet in Red Slip ware; cylindrical body tapering towards a flat base, sharply carinated at the shoulder with a forward sloping narrow neck and a trough-shaped mouth; looped strap handle, rising from the base of the neck to the shoulder; made of orange-buff clay covered in a dark red burnished slip; incised decoration of parallel groups of vertical zigzag lines with traces of whitish paste infill. Dimensions: Height: 15.70 centimetres Object Type: juglet Ware: Red Slip Ware (Cyprus) Techniques: handmade; incised; burnished

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Red Slip ware (Middle Bronze Age)
Shape
JugJuglet
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeMiddle Cypriot (Middle Bronze Age)
Date
1850 - 1650 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
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Idalion

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Dhali

Identifiers

Accession no.
1868,0905.6, British Museum · Museum record

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