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Base Ring Ware Jug, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot, Base Ring I
Base Ring Ware Jug, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot, Base Ring I, c. 1600–1340 BC. British Museum, 1897,0401.1199.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age I

Base Ring Ware Jug

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

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Base Ring wareBase Ring I
Shape
Jug
Decoration
Relief and applied
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)Late Cypriot I
Date
1600 - 1340 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
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Enkomi

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Enkomi

Identifiers

Accession no.
1897,0401.1199, British Museum · Museum record

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