Base Ring Ware Jug - image 1

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 orange to brown slip; burnished; light brown fabric. Dimensions: Diameter: 12.30 centimetres; Height: 27.30 centimetres Object Type: jug Ware: Base Ring Ware Series: Base Ring I Techniques: slipped; handmade; burnished

Date

1600 - 1340 BC

Accession No.

1897,0401.1248

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Enkomi