White Painted Jug

White Painted Jug

Description:

Pottery jug in White Painted ware; wheel-made; globular-biconical body on a raised disc base; wide, slightly concave neck and trefoil mouth; single handle from shoulder to mouth; red-buff clay decorated with dull black paint: bands around the body and neck, with a hook motif hanging from the body; surface much encrusted.


Dimensions: Height: 18.70 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Ware: White Painted Ware (WP IV (?))


Techniques: painted; wheel-made

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Kourion

Accession Number:

1982,0729.405