jug
- Museum number
- 1880,0710.94
- Description
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Small pottery jug in Red-on-Black ware; hand-made; spherical body with a cylindrical, concave neck; plain everted lip; round base; high handle from shoulder to rim; made of coarse buff clay covered with thick, polished black paint decorated with deep red stripes; surface worn in places and possibly shows signs of differential firing.
- Production date
- 1900BC-1650BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 9 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- The juglet is listed included in a sequence of objects said to be from tombs at Amathus and Limassol without distinguishing which site. This was amended in Walters' vase catalogue to '[F]rom the neighbourhood of Amathus'. However no sites of this period are known from the immediate vicinity of the Iron Age acropolis, so it is likely that this item (and the EC-MC Bronze Age spindle whorl GR 1880,7-10.110) was found in a tomb of this date at Limassol. See Karageorghis and Violaris 2012, 22-3 (with refs) on the EC-MC burial grounds around modern Limassol.
The ware originates in the Karpas peninsula of north-east Cyprus. See SCE IV/1B, 108-18 for details of this ware; also 162-98, esp. charts on pages 197-8, for other occurrences and relative chronology. It is mainly found in the east of the island, but examples are also known along the south coast at Hala Sultan Tekke, Maroni-Psematismeno and Limassol (Tomb 70/4 and Erimi Tomb 9/3, on which see Karageorghis and Violaris 2012, 220 and individual tomb entries).The juglet is close to one in Nitovikla Tomb 2, no. 17 (SCE I, 412 and pl. LXIX) (http://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/object/3211695) (We are grateful to Matt Spiegelman for providing this information).
Bibliography:
Karageorghis V. and Violaris Y. 2012, Tombs of the Late Bronze Age in the Limassol area, Cyprus (17th-13th centuries BC) (Limassol).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1880,0710.94
