Late Cypriot Bucchero Jug - image 1

Late Bronze Age III

Late Cypriot Bucchero Jug

Small pottery jug in Late Cypriot Bucchero Handmade ware; globular body on a splaying ring base; tapering cylindrical neck with everted rim: the slightly chamfered edge has a groove down the middle; vertical stripe handle with square profile from rim to shoulder; ridge at junction of the neck runs around the vase, vertical relief ribbing from the neck to just above the base; dark-pink buff clay with a thin matt brown to black slip: the surface of the neck has been finished with a tool. Dimensions: Height: 12 centimetres Object Type: jug Ware: Cypriot Bucchero Ware Techniques: handmade; slipped

Date

1340 - 1050 BC

Accession No.

1896,0201.360

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Kourion