bottle; juglet

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Object Type: bottle; juglet
Museum number: 1876,0909.50
Description: Pottery juglet or spindle bottle in Base Ring II ware; hand-made; conical-piriform body on a low conical ring base; tall narrow cylindrical neck with an everted rim; strap handle from shoulder to middle of neck, neck ridge at junction; made of fine buff clay with a burnished surface, fired to a metallic lustre; decorated with white paint on the upper half of the body: vertical stripes meeting at a ring around the body; surface worn and pitted in places.
Cultures/periods: Late Cypriot II; Late Cypriot IIIA
Production date: 1450 BC-1200 BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Cyprus
Materials: pottery
Ware: Base Ring Ware
Type series: Base Ring II (SCE type XII a)
Technique: painted; handmade; polished
Dimensions: Height: 10.50 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (C165); SCE IV/1C / The Swedish Cyprus Expedition vol. IV. Part IC. The Late Cypriot Bronze Age. Architecture and pottery (XIIa, p. 188)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Luigi Palma di Cesnola
Acquisition date: 1876
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1876,0909.50

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