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Plain White Tankard, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot, Plain White Wheelmade
Plain White Tankard, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot, Plain White Wheelmade, c. 1650–1050 BC. British Museum, 1978,0719.3.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age I

Plain White Tankard

Pottery tankard in Plain White Wheel-made Ware; wheel-made; depressed globular body with ring base and wide neck with everted rim; thick strap handle from rim to shoulder; orange-pink clay slipped and fired to a dark buff colour; undecorated. Dimensions: Diameter: 8.80 centimetres max ; Height: 14.50 centimetres Object Type: jug Ware: Plain White Wheel-made Ware Techniques: slipped; wheel-made

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Plain White ware (Bronze Age)Plain White Wheelmade
Shape
JugTankard
Decoration
Undecorated
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)
Date
1650 - 1050 BC
Place of production
Cyprus

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

Identifiers

Accession no.
1978,0719.3, British Museum · Museum record

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