Red-On-Black Ware Jug

Red-On-Black Ware Jug

Description:

Pottery jug in Red-on-black Ware; handmade; globular body with round base and long, narrow neck with flared rim; round handle from rim to shoulder; made with buff clay with a dark, brown polished slip; painted red decoration, now very worn and faded consists of groups of short parallel lines repeated in a chequerboard pattern over the entire surface including the neck and shoulder.


Dimensions: Height: 26 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Ware: Red-On-Black Ware


Techniques: painted; slipped; handmade

Period:

Middle Bronze Age II

Date:

1850 - 1550 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Found/Acquired: Cyprus (?)

Accession Number:

1938,0412.1