White Painted Spouted Jug

White Painted Spouted Jug

Description:

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

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

800 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1894,1101.422