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White Painted Pendant Line Jug, Middle Bronze Age III Cypriot
White Painted Pendant Line Jug, Middle Bronze Age III Cypriot, c. 1750–1550 BC. British Museum, 1884,1210.7.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Middle Bronze Age III

White Painted Pendant Line Jug

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

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Bronze Age)
Shape
Jug
Style
Pendent Line Style
Decoration
Painted
Motifs
Wavy lines, Bands and lines
Material
Clay
Place of production
Cyprus
Date
1750 - 1550 BC

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Phoenikiais

Identifiers

Accession no.
1884,1210.7, British Museum · Museum record

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