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White Painted Juglet, Middle Bronze Age III Cypriot, White Painted IV
White Painted Juglet, Middle Bronze Age III Cypriot, White Painted IV, c. 1800–1650 BC. British Museum, 1884,1210.10.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Middle Bronze Age III

White Painted Juglet

Pottery juglet in White Painted III-IV Pendant Line Style ware; handmade; globular body with round base; narrow cylindrical neck with everted rim and handle rim to shoulder; buff clay with pale slip and brown painted decoration;encircling bands on the neck, with the body painted with alternating groups of four parallel straight lines and a single wavy line. Dimensions: Height: 12 centimetres Object Type: juglet Ware: White Painted Ware Series: White Painted Pendent Line Style (SCE type IA 2b) Techniques: handmade; painted; slipped

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Bronze Age)White Painted IV (Bronze Age)
Shape
JugJuglet
Style
Pendent Line Style
Decoration
Painted
Motifs
Wavy lines, Bands and lines
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeMiddle Cypriot (Middle Bronze Age)
Date
1800 - 1650 BC
Place of production
Cyprus

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Phoenikiais

Identifiers

Accession no.
1884,1210.10, British Museum · Museum record

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