Red Slip Juglet

Red Slip Juglet

Description:

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

Period:

Middle Bronze Age II

Date:

1850 - 1650 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Dhali

Accession Number:

1868,0905.6