White Painted Hook Jug

White Painted Hook Jug

Description:

Pottery jug in White Painted ware; wheelmade; ovoid-globular body; slightly conical neck with a trefoil spout; coarsish-red fabric with numerous inclusions decorated with bands of black paint and a large hook motif from the shoulder to the handle; surface accreted and worn.


Dimensions: Height: 20.60 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Ware: White Painted Ware (WP III-IV)


Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

800 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Kourion

Accession Number:

1982,0729.45