Base Ring Ware Jug

Base Ring Ware Jug

Description:

Pottery Base Ring I ware jug; hand-made; tall neck, widening towards top, everted rim with indented lip; vertical strap handle from upper neck to shoulder; ovoid body with broad low ring base; decorated with double horizontal relief ridge at neck to handle join and a single relief ridge at neck to body join, two antithetic curved relief ridges on body opposite handle; thin, lustrous mottled brown to dark brown slip; burnished; brown fabric with grey core.


Dimensions: Diameter: 13.10 centimetres; Height: 26.40 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Ware: Base Ring Ware


Series: Base Ring I


Techniques: slipped; burnished; handmade

Period:

Late Bronze Age I

Date:

1600 - 1340 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Enkomi

Accession Number:

1897,0401.1199