White Painted Triglyph Jug

White Painted Triglyph Jug

Description:

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

Period:

Late Bronze Age I

Date:

1650 - 1550 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Phoenikiais

Accession Number:

1884,1210.54