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White Painted Jug, Archaic I Cypriot
White Painted Jug, Archaic I Cypriot, c. 750–500 BC. British Museum, 1982,0729.404.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Archaic I

White Painted Jug

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

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Iron Age)
Shape
JugTrefoil-mouthed jug
Decoration
Painted
Motif
Bands and lines
Material
Clay
Period
probablyIron AgeCypro-Archaic
Date
750 - 500 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Kourion

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Kourion

Identifiers

Accession no.
1982,0729.404, British Museum · Museum record

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