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 |