White Painted IV Jug

White Painted IV Jug

Description:

Pottery jug in White Painted IV ware; hand-made; carinated body on a low foot; short neck and narrow everted rim; high vertical handle from shoulder to rim (now missing); buff clay and slip, decorated in dark brown paint: cross-hatched triangles and wavy-lines, on the base intersecting lines forming a cross, short oblique strokes in pairs on the rim.


Dimensions: Height: 7.50 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Ware: White Painted Ware


Series: White Painted IV (SCE type IXA 1h)


Techniques: painted; handmade; slipped

Period:

Middle Bronze Age III

Date:

1800 - 1650 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais

Accession Number:

1884,1210.55