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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, 1898,1201.104.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age I

White Slip Tankard

Pottery White Slip I ware tankard; hand-made; ovoid body on a low ring base; wide neck with horizontal everted rim; strap handle from rim to shoulder with thumb-rest projection at the top; opposite the handle is a trefoil shaped projection Made of red-brown clay with cream to beige slip, decorated with purple-red paint: concentric bands consisting of lines and dots, with similar vertical bands connecting them; interior rim painted with bands and groups of parallel lines; surface very abraded in places. Dimensions: Height: 11.30 centimetres Object Type: tankard Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot) Series: White Slip I Techniques: handmade; slipped; painted

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Slip wareWhite Slip I
Shape
JugTankard
Decoration
Painted
Motifs
Bands and lines, Dots and dot rows
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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Accession No.

1898,1201.104

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Maroni

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