Base Ring Ware Spindle Bottle

Base Ring Ware Spindle Bottle

Description:

Pottery Base Ring I ware spindle bottle; hand-made; long body tapering to low ring base; long cylindrical neck and horizontal rim; strap handle from mid-neck to shoulder; incised interlacing parallel lines on shoulder and neck; pot mark at the base of the handle in the form of a cross.


Made from orange clay with a slip fired unevenly around the body (orange-red to black); surface pitted and base chipped.


Dimensions: Height: 18.50 centimetres max


Object Type: juglet


Ware: Base Ring Ware


Series: Base Ring I


Techniques: handmade; incised; slipped


Inscription: Inscription type: pottery mark Inscription position: base of handle

Period:

Late Bronze Age I

Date:

1650 - 1400 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Maroni

Accession Number:

1898,1201.101