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Red/Black Grooved Jug, Archaic Cypriot
Red/Black Grooved Jug, Archaic Cypriot, c. 750–475 BC. British Museum, 1894,1101.567.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Archaic

Red/Black Grooved Jug

Small pottery jug in Red/Black Slip Grooved Ware; wheel-made; depressed globular body no a rounded base; narrow concave neck with a plain everted rim; single handle from shoulder to rim; decorated with horizontal grooves around the body from the base of the neck to just above the base, grooves inside the neck as well; made of buff clay covered with a thin slip, fired red on the upper body and black or red below; slip worn in places. Dimensions: Height: 6.60 centimetres Object Type: jug Techniques: slipped; wheel-made

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Shape
Jug
Material
Clay
Period
probablyIron AgeCypro-Archaic
Date
750 - 475 BC
Findspot
Amathus

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Amathus

Identifiers

Accession no.
1894,1101.567, British Museum · Museum record

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