Black Slip Zig-Zag Jug

Black Slip Zig-Zag Jug

Description:

Pottery juglet or flask in Black Slip ware; hand-made; flattened ovoid body on a button base; narrow concave neck with a rounded rim; single handle with rounded section, extending from shoulder to below neck; five founded knobs down each side; made of buff clay covered with a thin slip, fired brown-black; decorated with incised zig-zags across the body flanked by vertical parallel lines; vertical stip of zig-zags and hatched triangles down the centre of each side; slip now worn in places.


Dimensions: Height: 17 centimetres


Object Type: juglet; flask


Ware: Black Slip Ware


Series: Black Slip III (?); Black Slip V (?)


Techniques: incised; slipped; handmade

Period:

Middle Bronze Age III

Date:

1750 - 1550 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1875,0313.4