Early Bronze Age III

Red Polished Amphora

Pottery storage jar ('amphora') in Red Polished III ware; handmade; globular body with a rounded base and a tall cylindrical neck with everted rim; pair of opposing horned handles from lower neck to shoulder; made of fairly fine buff clay covered with a polished orange-red slip, decorated with lime-filled incisions: zig-zags and bands composed of parallel lines on the body, hatched lozenges; surface worn in places. Dimensions: Height: 33 centimetres Object Type: jar Ware: Red Polished Ware Series: Red Polished III; Stewart Type (VII A2 p3) Techniques: handmade; incised; slipped; polished