Plain White Wheel-made Jug

Plain White Wheel-made Jug

Description:

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.

Period:

Late Bronze Age I

Date:

1650 - 1200 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Enkomi

Accession Number:

1897,0401.879