Base Ring Ware Jug - image 1

Late Bronze Age I

Base Ring Ware Jug

Pottery Base Ring I small jug; hand-made; long cylindrical neck widening to slightly everted rim with flat edge; beaked mouth; vertical strap handle from upper neck to shoulder pierced through body; body squat ovoid with tall flaring ring base; double relief band at handle join on neck; body decorated with hatched relief band at neck join and hatched antithetic relief spirals joining opposite handle with incised chevrons; surface orange-brown lustrous; clay brown at outer face with thick grey core. Dimensions: Diameter: 11.20 centimetres; Height: 24.90 centimetres Object Type: jug Ware: Base Ring Ware Series: Base Ring I Techniques: slipped; incised; handmade; burnished; pierced

Date

1600 - 1340 BC

Accession No.

1897,0401.926

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Enkomi