White Painted Jug

White Painted Jug

Description:

Pottery jug in White Painted/Bichrome ware; ovoid-globular body with a narrow neck splaying outwards to a wide mouth; ridge on the neck at the junction with the handle; handle arches up from the shoulder; made of buff-pink clay and slip, possibly polished, decorated with black paint: bands of finely drawn parallel lines on the body and on. rings inside the mouth, two curved strokes beneath handle.


Dimensions: Height: 19 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Ware: White Painted Ware (WP III-IV)


Techniques: painted; slipped; polished (?); wheel-made

Period:

Geometric II

Date:

900 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1880,0710.73