White Painted Basket-handled Jar, Geometric I Cypriot

Geometric I

White Painted Basket-handled Jar

Pottery jar in White Painted ware; wheel-made; globular-biconical body on a low ring base; wide neck tapering outwards to a thick, rolled rim; large horizontal basket handles at the shoulder at each side of the vase; cream clay and slip, decorated in black to red paint: banded decoration around the body, solid black handles and a single wavy-line at the shoulder between the handles. Dimensions: Height: 21 centimetres Object Type: jar Ware: White Painted Ware (WP I-II) Techniques: painted; wheel-made

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Shape
Jar
Decoration
Painted
Material
Clay
Period
probablyIron AgeCypro-Geometric
Date
1050 - 900 BC
Place of production
Cyprus

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Accession No.

1982,0721.71

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