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Proto Base Ring Jug, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot
Proto Base Ring Jug, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot, c. 1650–1450 BC. British Museum, 1982,0726.5.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age I

Proto Base Ring Jug

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)

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Base Ring wareProto Base Ring
Shape
Jug
Decoration
Relief and applied
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)Late Cypriot I
Date
1650 - 1450 BC
Place of production
Cyprus

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Cyprus

Identifiers

Accession no.
1982,0726.5, British Museum · Museum record

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