White Slip Ware Tankard

White Slip Ware Tankard

Description:

Pottery tankard (or jug) in White Slip II ware; handmade; hemispherical body with a ring foot with a high neck and everted ledge rim; rising strap handle from rim to shoulder; made of brownish-buff clay with a thick creamy-white, matt slip and brown painted decoration; this consists of vertical framed lozenge patterns and diamond patterns crossing a horizontal band of columns of dots framed inside parallel lines; the lower body was painted with ladder lattices and framed lozenge patterns interspersed with diamond pattern, the rim and handle were decorated with parallel lines.


Dimensions: Diameter: 12 centimetres; Height: 16 centimetres


Object Type: tankard; jug


Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot)


Series: White Slip II (SCE type 4 jug)


Techniques: slipped; painted

Period:

Late Bronze Age II

Date:

1550 - 1200 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Dhali

Accession Number:

1868,0905.48