Cream Slip Juglet

Cream Slip Juglet

Description:

Pottery juglet in White Slip ware; hand-made; ovoid-spherical body on a flat base; tall narrow neck with a flaring rim; strap handle from shoulder to med-neck; made of course buff clay covered with a thick cream-coloured slip and decorated with orange-brown paint: wavy line on the lip, bands of horizontal zones and lozenges on the neck, vertical ladder-motifs filled with hatching or hatched lozenges on the body; surface worn in places.


Dimensions: Height: 16 centimetres


Object Type: juglet


Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot) (WS II early)


Techniques: slipped; handmade; painted

Period:

Late Bronze Age II

Date:

1450 - 1340 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1876,0909.21