Base Ring Ware Jug

Base Ring Ware Jug

Description:

Pottery jug in Base Ring I ware; handmade; piriform body with conical ring base and long cylidrical neck with circular everted mouth; grooved strap-handle from neck to shoulder; made of orange clay with brown slip and decorated with applied hatched antithetical spirals joined at the front and also a ridge at the base of the neck and two in the middle of the neck.


Dimensions: Height: 38.50 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Ware: Base Ring Ware


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


Techniques: handmade; applied; slipped

Period:

Late Bronze Age I

Date:

1600 - 1375 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Accession Number:

1966,1129.1