Red Polished Mottled Dipping Jug - image 1

Early Bronze Age II

Red Polished Mottled Dipping Jug

Pottery jug with vertical handle, probably a dipping jug, in Red Polished Mottled ware; hand-made; deep oval body with round base and a short wide neck with everted rim; angular vertical handle rising from rim to shoulder, opposite a small pierced vertical projection on the shoulder; slipped in red and polished without decoration and fired to a mottled red and black colour; some chips on the rim. Dimensions: Height: 17.50 centimetres Object Type: jug; dipper Ware: Red Polished Ware Series: Red Polished I-II (mottled) Techniques: pierced; slipped; burnished; handmade

Date

2300 - 2100 BC

Accession No.

1888,0927.4

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Ayia Paraskevi