White Painted Jug

White Painted Jug

Description:

Pottery jug in White Painted ware; wheel-made; globular-ovoid body on a low disc base; narrow conical neck with a trefoil mouth; single handle arching from shoulder to rim; rather coarse orange-red clay with a cream slip, decorated with black paint: parallel bands around the body and neck, with a hook motif hanging from the handle; surface much eroded and encrusted, mouth chipped.


Dimensions: Height: 19.40 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Ware: White Painted Ware (WP IV-V)


Techniques: painted; wheel-made

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 500 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Kourion

Accession Number:

1982,0729.404