Base Ring Ware Jug

Base Ring Ware Jug

Description:

Pottery jug in Base Ring II ware; handmade; piriform body with a ring base and a cylindrical, slightly widening neck and an everted neck; the handle is form mid-neck to shoulder, with pellets applied either side of the handle, at its top and base, resembling rivets of a metal vessel; made in orange clay with a mottled brown, lustrous slip.


Dimensions: Height: 14 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Ware: Base Ring Ware


Series: Base Ring II (SCE type IXB 1f)


Techniques: applied; handmade; slipped

Period:

Late Bronze Age II

Date:

1450 - 1200 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1876,0515.3