Black Slip Jug

Black Slip Jug

Description:

Small pottery jug in Black Slip ware; wheel-made; ovoid to biconical body on a flat, low base; narrow neck and flat everted rim; single handle from shoulder to rim; buff clay covered with a thin black slip, mostly eroded except on the lower part of the body.


Dimensions: Height: 10.10 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Ware: Black Slip Ware


Series: Black Slip V


Techniques: slipped; wheel-made

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 400 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Kourion

Accession Number:

1982,0729.307