Black Slip Trefoil Jug

Black Slip Trefoil Jug

Description:

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

Period:

Geometric I

Date:

1050 - 900 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Salamis (Cyprus) (?)

Gastria (?)

Kourion (?)

Accession Number:

1982,0729.519