Middle Bronze Age III

White Painted Ware Jar

Pottery jar in White Painted V ware; handmade; globular-biconical body with wide neck and everted rim; the bowl is pierced, possibly for suspension, at each side at the junction of the body and the neck; very fine, well levigated clay with buff-cream slip decorated in black paint: outside, on the shoulder, a frieze of hatched triangles with groups of dots in between, framed by parallel bands on bottom and a 'swag' within parallel lines below the rim; bands of vertical parallel lines at regular intervals hang below this register and meet underneath the bowl; on the interior, a frieze of 'swags' framed by vertical parallel lines. Dimensions: Height: 6 centimetres Object Type: jar Ware: White Painted Ware Series: White Painted V Fine Line Style (SCE type IV a) Techniques: painted; handmade; slipped