Red Polished Double-Spout Jug
Description: | Pottery jug with double-spout in Red Polished ware; hand-made. Ovoid gourd-like body on a rounded base; two tall cylindrical necks with cutaway mouths; single handle with an oval profile branching into two bridges to the bottom of the cutaway mouths. Made of pink-buff fabric and covered with a lustrous burnished red slip; incised with lime-filled incised geometric motifs: bands of horizontal lines on the lower body, spouts and hand; panels of vertical zig-zags and hatched triangles. Some restoration (at joins) and the surface is worn in places. Dimensions: Height: 30.48 centimetres Object Type: jug Ware: Red Polished Ware Series: Red Polished III; Stewart Type (Class I Group A3 Type b) Techniques: incised; handmade |
Period: | Early Bronze Age III |
Date: | 2100 - 1900 BC |
Collection: | British Museum |
Provenance: | Alambra |
Accession Number: | 1871,0210.1 |