Base Ring II Tankard

Base Ring II Tankard

Description:

Pottery tankard in Base Ring II ware; hand-made; piriform body with a ring base and a wide neck with flat everted rim; strap handle with bifurcated thumb grip from rim to shoulder; made of ornage clay with mottled brown slip and white painted decoration of encircling and vertical parallel lines.


Dimensions: Height: 17 centimetres


Object Type: tankard


Ware: Base Ring Ware


Series: Base Ring II (SCE type XB 1a)


Techniques: painted; slipped; handmade

Period:

Late Bronze Age II

Date:

1450 - 1200 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Accession Number:

1960,0517.1