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Base Ring Ware Jug, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot, Base Ring I
Base Ring Ware Jug, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot, Base Ring I, c. 1600–1375 BC. British Museum, 1966,1129.1.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age I

Base Ring Ware Jug

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

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Base Ring wareBase Ring I
Shape
Jug
Decoration
Relief and applied
Motif
Guilloche and spiral
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)Late Cypriot I
Date
1600 - 1375 BC
Place of production
Cyprus

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

Identifiers

Accession no.
1966,1129.1, British Museum · Museum record

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