Proto Base Ring Jug

Proto Base Ring Jug

Description:

Pottery jug in Proto Base Ring ware; handmade; globular body with flat base and a narrow, tapering neck with a funnel mouth; strap handle from neck to shoulder; decorated with two antithetical semi-circular, hatched ridges on the body; brown-orange clay with greyish brown slip worn in places; cracked.


Dimensions: Height: 16.50 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Ware: Base Ring Ware


Series: Proto Base Ring (SCE type IC 1c)

Period:

Late Bronze Age I

Date:

1650 - 1450 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1982,0726.5