Red Slip Juglet - image 1

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

Date

1850 - 1650 BC

Accession No.

1868,0905.6

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Dhali