Late Bronze Age I

Plain White Wheel-made Jug

Pottery Plain White Wheel-made Ware jug; wheel-made; slightly concave neck with trefoil mouth; slightly flaring rim thickening to rounded end; vertical handle with oval profile from rim to shoulder rising slightly above rim; ridge at neck base; globular-biconical body with flat base; self-slipped and slightly greenish from overfiring; star-shaped post-firing pot mark on top of handle. Dimensions: Diameter: 14.90 centimetres; Height: 16.90 centimetres Object Type: jug Ware: Plain White Wheel-made Ware Techniques: incised; wheel-made Inscription: Inscription type: pottery mark Inscription position: top of handle Inscription note: Post-firing pot mark of three intersecting lines forming star shape with fourth line from centre of star to towards mouth of vessel. Symbol possibly correlated with Cypro-Minoan script.