lekythos; juglet

Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Object Type: lekythos; juglet
Museum number: 1894,1101.15
Description: Small pottery barrel-shaped juglet in White Painted ware; wheel-made; barrel-shaped body with bosses (or 'nipples') at each flattened; narrow neck flaring to a trumpet mouth; small arching handle from shoulder to neck; buff clay and slip, decorated in black paint: parallel bands around the body with a bull's-eye motif on the bosses, solid neck and handle.
Cultures/periods: Cypro-Geometric III; Cypro-Archaic I
Production date: 900 BC-700 BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Turner Bequest Excavations, Amathus
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Amathus (historic), Site B, tomb 14
Materials: pottery
Ware: White Painted Ware
Type series: White Painted III
Technique: painted; slipped
Dimensions: Height: 10.50 centimetres
Curator's comments: Additional bibliography: J. Birmingham, AJA 67 (1963), p. 23 & ill. I,30.
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (C777); Murray, Smith and Walters 1900 / Excavations in Cyprus (p. 116 (Tomb 14)); SCE IV/2 / The Swedish Cyprus Expedition. Vol. IV. Part 2. The Cypro-Geometric, Cypro-Archaic and Cypro-Classical periods. (Fig. XIX,2)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name: From: Turner Bequest Excavations, Amathus
Funder name: Funded by: Emma Tourner Turner (bequest)
Acquisition date: 1894
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1894,1101.15

Free entry

Opening hours