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White Painted Juglet, Archaic I Cypriot
White Painted Juglet, Archaic I Cypriot, c. 800–600 BC. British Museum, 1896,0201.88.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Archaic I

White Painted Juglet

Pottery juglet in White Painted ware; wheel-made; squat body with cylindrical, slightly concave neck and everted rim; vertical strap handle from body to just below rim; buff clay with many inclusions and creamy-white slip; decorated in brown paint with concentic bands around the body and base, the latter framing a maltese cross in light-on-dark technique; single broad band at juncture of body and neck; ladder motif on handle. Dimensions: Height: 5.50 centimetres Object Type: juglet Ware: White Painted Ware (WP III-IV) Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Iron Age)
Shape
JugJuglet
Decoration
Painted
Motifs
Bands and lines, Maltese cross, Ladder pattern
Material
Clay
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Episkopi-Bamboula
Date
800 - 600 BC

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Episkopi-Bamboula

Identifiers

Accession no.
1896,0201.88, British Museum · Museum record
Report entry
Episkopi-Bamboula, BM Tomb 56, no. 1Murray et al. 1900, p. 80

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