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White Painted Juglet, Middle Bronze Age III Cypriot, White Painted V
White Painted Juglet, Middle Bronze Age III Cypriot, White Painted V, c. 1750–1550 BC. British Museum, 1884,1210.194.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Middle Bronze Age III

White Painted Juglet

Pottery juglet in White Painted V ware; handmade; globular body with rounded base and tubular neck with beak-mouth; small handle from the base of the neck to the shoulder; buff clay with a creamy buff slip; decorated with red paint with parallel lines on the body positioned tangentially to the encircling lines around the neck. Dimensions: Height: 10.80 centimetres Object Type: juglet Ware: White Painted Ware Series: White Painted V (V D 2b) Techniques: handmade; painted; slipped

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Bronze Age)White Painted V (Bronze Age)
Shape
JugJuglet
Decoration
Painted
Motif
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.
1884,1210.194, British Museum · Museum record

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