White Painted Ware Jug

White Painted Ware Jug

Description:

Pottery jug in White Painted ware; wheel-made; ovoid body on a ring base; narrow neck flaring outwards to the mouth; double-ribbed handle arching from shoulder to rim; orange-buff clay and slip, decorated in matt black paint: black bands around the body, neck and on rim, with groups of small concentric circles above; the surface, including much of the paint, is worn.


Dimensions: Height: 24.10 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Ware: White Painted Ware (WP III)


Techniques: painted; wheel-made

Period:

Geometric II

Date:

900 - 700 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Kourion

Accession Number:

1982,0729.308