White Painted Spouted Jug

White Painted Spouted Jug

Description:

White Painted spouted jug; wheel-made; globular-ovoid body on a splaying foot; concave neck and rounded rim; arching basket handle across the mouth; narrow tubular spout on the shoulder; buff clay and similar slip decorated with purple-brown paint: parallel bands of various widths on the belly and neck with a wavy line in between; short parallel stokes on the handle; solid paint on the foot.


Dimensions: Height: 22 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Ware: White Painted Ware (WP I-II)


Techniques: painted; slipped; wheel-made

Period:

Geometric I

Date:

1050 - 900 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1982,0726.59