Base Ring Ware Jug

Base Ring Ware Jug

Description:

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

Period:

Late Bronze Age I

Date:

1600 - 1340 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Enkomi

Accession Number:

1897,0401.926