Red Polished Double-Spout Jug

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