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, now broken away; small horned handle from base of neck to shoulder; two string-holes on neck; buff clay with pale buff slip; decorated in black paint, now mostly fugitive, comprising diagonal lines in triangular or rectangular panels.


Dimensions: Height: 12.50 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:

1884,1210.195