Late Bronze Age I

White Slip Tankard

Pottery: White Slip I ware tankard; hand-made; depressed globular-ovoid body on a conical ring base; wide cylindrical neck with everted rim; strap handle from mid-neck to shoulder; horned thumb-grip on top of handle. Made of orange-buff clay with thick cream slip, decorated with orange and black paint: on body, chequer board arrangement of alternating panels with plain or hatched fill; neck decoration comprises cross-hatched ladders separated by a band of horizontal zig-zags; other motifs in the fill, including vertical lozenges and dots; orange wavy line on base and inside lip; pairs of horizontal lines on the handle. Dimensions: Height: 19.50 centimetres Object Type: tankard Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot) (WS I) Techniques: slipped; painted; handmade