White Painted Stringhole Juglet

White Painted Stringhole Juglet

Description:

Pottery juglet/feeder bottle in White Painted Stringhole ware; handmade; depressed globular body on a rounded bottom, tall narrow neck and beaked spout; single handle from shoulder to just above the base of the handle; large oval 'mouth' set into the bottom of the spout just above the handle; four pairs of string-holes, placed one above the other, at the eside of the bodies, with two more pairs at the base of the spout flanking the handle. Made of fine buff clay, fired to a buff-cream surface, with black painted decoration: vertical lines framing hatched lozenges on the body, horizontal stripes on the spout.


Dimensions: Height: 17.78 centimetres; Height: 17.80 centimetres


Object Type: juglet; bottle


Ware: White Painted Ware


Techniques: painted; handmade

Period:

Middle Bronze Age III

Date:

1800 - 1650 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1869,0604.8