Late Bronze Age I

White Slip Tankard

Pottery: White Slip I ware tankard; hand-made; depressed globular body on a low conical ring base; wide cylindrical neck, slightly concave, with an everted rim; wide strap handle from mid-neck to shoulder (thumb-grip now missing); large pointed boss or knob projecting from base of neck. Made of orange-buff clay with thick cream slip, decorated in red-orange paint: vertical bands enclosing lozenges and cross-hatching on the body, separated by horizontal bands: the band at the junction of body and neck encloses a frieze of lozenges; vertical lines of lozenges and dots on the body; pair of wavy lines just below the rim; the vertical bands continue as semi-wavy lines under the base; zig-zags of parallel lines on the handle, with a hollow circle within each corresponding triangle. Dimensions: Height: 15.70 centimetres Object Type: tankard Ware: White Slip Ware (Cypriot) (WS I) Techniques: slipped; painted; handmade