Base Ring Jug

Base Ring Jug

Description:

Pottery Base Ring I ware small jug; hand-made; cylindrical neck flaring to everted rim with beaked mouth; vertical rectangular profiled handle from upper neck to shoulder; globular body; low ring base; horizontal relief band above wavy line from shoulder to maximum diameter, partially missing; two horizontal relief bands around neck at handle join; thin, dark brown lustrous slip, worn in places; brown clay.


Dimensions: Diameter: 10.70 centimetres; Height: 19.60 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Ware: Base Ring Ware


Series: Base Ring I


Techniques: handmade; slipped; burnished

Period:

Late Bronze Age I

Date:

1600 - 1340 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Enkomi

Accession Number:

1897,0401.978