Black Slip Ware Juglet

Black Slip Ware Juglet

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 rim; four large hook-like projections down each side; made of buff clay with a thin slip, fired brown-black; decorated with bands of incised zig-zags arranged horizontally down the body, enclosed by vertical parallel lines; slip very worn in places.


Dimensions: Height: 13.50 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:

Dhali

Accession Number:

1868,0905.1