Base Ring Spiral Jug - image 1

Late Bronze Age I

Base Ring Spiral Jug

Pottery jug in Base Ring I ware; handmade; piriform body with conical ring base and long cylidrical neck with pinched mouth; strap-handle from neck to shoulder; made of orange-red clay with brown slip and decorated with applied hatched antithetical spirals joined at the front and also hatched single ridges at the base and the middle of the neck. Dimensions: Height: 26.80 centimetres Object Type: jug Ware: Base Ring Ware Series: Base Ring I (SCE type VID 2c) Techniques: handmade; applied; slipped

Date

1600 - 1340 BC

Accession No.

1971,1004.1

Collection

British Museum

Provenance