Base Ring Tankard

Base Ring Tankard

Description:

Pottery tankard in Base Ring I ware; handmade; depressed globular body with a ring base and tapering neck with an everted horizontal rim; strap handle with thumb grip from rim to shoulder; buff clay with brown-grey mottled slip with a decorative relief ridge on the body.


Dimensions: Height: 10 centimetres


Object Type: tankard


Ware: Base Ring Ware


Series: Base Ring I (SCE type VIIB 1d)


Techniques: slipped; handmade

Period:

Late Bronze Age I

Date:

1600 - 1340 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Dhali

Accession Number:

1868,0905.34