White Painted Pendant Line Jug

White Painted Pendant Line Jug

Description:

Pottery jug in White Painted Pendant Line Style); hand-made; globular-ovoid body on a rounded base; narrow concave neck with a flaring mouth; single rounded handle arching from shoulder to rim. Made of fairly fine buff clay with similar slip, decorated with purple-red paint: vertical wavy lines framed by bands of parallel lines from the shoulder to the base; two bands formed of parallel lines just below the junction of body and neck; horizontal bands on the neck.


Dimensions: Height: 29 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Ware: White Painted Ware


Series: White Painted Pendent Line Style (SCE type IA 2b)


Techniques: painted; slipped; handmade

Period:

Middle Bronze Age III

Date:

1750 - 1550 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais

Accession Number:

1884,1210.7