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Black Slip Trefoil Jug

Pottery Black Slip jug; wheel-made; wheel-made; ovoid body on a ring base; short narrow with trefoil spout; vertical hand from shoulder to lip; orange clay with a matt black slip (eroded in places) , decorated with incised fluting: three carefully incised grooves around the shoulder with rather more freehand vertical flutes around the body; base chipped. Dimensions: Height: 8.80 centimetres Object Type: jug Ware: Black Slip Ware Series: Black Slip I (BS I-II); Black Slip II Techniques: slipped; incised; wheel-made

Date

1050 - 900 BC

Accession No.

1982,0729.519

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Salamis (Cyprus) (?)
  • Gastria (?)
  • Kourion (?)