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White Slip Tankard, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot, White Slip I
White Slip Tankard, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot, White Slip I, c. 1600–1450 BC. British Museum, 1898,1201.163.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age I

White Slip Tankard

Pottery: White Slip I ware tankard; hand-made; depressed globular body on a low conical ring base; wide cylindrical neck, slightly concave, with an everted rim; wide strap handle from mid-neck to shoulder (thumb-grip now missing); large pointed boss or knob projecting from base of neck. Made of orange-buff clay with thick cream slip, decorated in red-orange paint: vertical bands enclosing lozenges and cross-hatching on the body, separated by horizontal bands: the band at the junction of body and neck encloses a frieze of lozenges; vertical lines of lozenges and dots on the body; pair of wavy lines just below the rim; the vertical bands continue as semi-wavy lines under the base; zig-zags of parallel lines on the handle, with a hollow circle within each corresponding triangle. Dimensions: Height: 15.70 centimetres Object Type: tankard Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot) (WS I) Techniques: slipped; painted; handmade

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Slip wareWhite Slip I
Shape
JugTankard
Decoration
Painted
Motifs
Triangles and lozenges, Lattice and checkerboard, Bands and lines
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)Late Cypriot I
Date
1600 - 1450 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Maroni

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Maroni

Identifiers

Accession no.
1898,1201.163, British Museum · Museum record

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