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Black Slip Zig-Zag Jug, Middle Bronze Age III Cypriot juglet
Black Slip Zig-Zag Jug, Middle Bronze Age III Cypriot, c. 1750–1550 BC. British Museum, 1875,0313.4.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Middle Bronze Age III

Black Slip Zig-Zag Jug

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

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Black Slip ware (Bronze Age)
Shape
JugJuglet
Decoration techniques
Incised, Relief and applied
Motif
Zigzags and chevrons
Material
Clay
Place of production
Cyprus
Date
1750 - 1550 BC

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Cyprus

Identifiers

Accession no.
1875,0313.4, British Museum · Museum record

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