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White Painted Spouted Jug, Archaic I Cypriot, White Painted III
White Painted Spouted Jug, Archaic I Cypriot, White Painted III, c. 800–600 BC. British Museum, 1894,1101.422.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Archaic I

White Painted Spouted Jug

Small pottery spouted jug in White Painted ware; wheel-made; ovoid body with short conical neck; small conical spout on shoulder; single handle from shoulder to with conical spout (broken); pale clay and slip, decorated in dark brown paint: multiple parallel bands on the lower body, pendant concentric hooks, spirals of finer parallel lines on upper body, wavy line on the neck, single bands on the handle, spout and inside the mouth. Dimensions: Height: 10.20 centimetres Object Type: jug Ware: White Painted Ware Series: White Painted III Techniques: painted; slipped; wheel-made

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Iron Age)White Painted III (Iron Age)
Shape
JugSide-spouted jug
Decoration
Painted
Motifs
Bands and lines, Guilloche and spiral, Wavy lines
Material
Clay
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Amathus
Date
800 - 600 BC

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Amathus

Identifiers

Accession no.
1894,1101.422, British Museum · Museum record

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