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White Painted Triglyph Jug, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot, White Painted VI
White Painted Triglyph Jug, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot, White Painted VI, c. 1650–1550 BC. British Museum, 1884,1210.54.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age I

White Painted Triglyph Jug

Pottery jug or small tankard in White Painted VI Soft Triglyph Style ware; hand-made; baggy globular body with a flat base; wide neck with an everted rim; high vertical handle (now broken) from shoulder to rim; buff-cream clay and slip, decorated in dark red paint: groups of three vertical lines or 'triglyphs' on the body, four parallel lines around the neck and dotted ring within circular wavy line on the base. Dimensions: Height: 7.50 centimetres Object Type: jug Ware: White Painted Ware Series: White Painted VI Soft Triglyphic Style (SCE form VI A b) Techniques: painted; handmade; slipped

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Bronze Age)White Painted VI (Bronze Age)
Shape
Jug
Style
Soft Triglyphic Style
Decoration
Painted
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)Late Cypriot I
Date
1650 - 1550 BC
Place of production
Cyprus

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Phoenikiais

Identifiers

Accession no.
1884,1210.54, British Museum · Museum record

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