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White Painted Ware Jar, Middle Bronze Age III Cypriot, White Painted V
White Painted Ware Jar, Middle Bronze Age III Cypriot, White Painted V, c. 1750–1550 BC. British Museum, 1933,0613.3.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Middle Bronze Age III

White Painted Ware Jar

Pottery jar in White Painted V ware; handmade; globular-biconical body with wide neck and everted rim; the bowl is pierced, possibly for suspension, at each side at the junction of the body and the neck; very fine, well levigated clay with buff-cream slip decorated in black paint: outside, on the shoulder, a frieze of hatched triangles with groups of dots in between, framed by parallel bands on bottom and a 'swag' within parallel lines below the rim; bands of vertical parallel lines at regular intervals hang below this register and meet underneath the bowl; on the interior, a frieze of 'swags' framed by vertical parallel lines. Dimensions: Height: 6 centimetres Object Type: jar Ware: White Painted Ware Series: White Painted V Fine Line Style (SCE type IV a) Techniques: painted; handmade; slipped

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Bronze Age)White Painted V (Bronze Age)
Shape
Jar
Decoration
Painted
Motifs
Triangles and lozenges, Dots and dot rows
Material
Clay
Place of production
Cyprus
Date
1750 - 1550 BC

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

Identifiers

Accession no.
1933,0613.3, British Museum · Museum record

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