jug
- Museum number
- 1896,0201.198
- Description
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Pottery red slip jug with vase protome spout; wheel-made; ovoid body carinated towards the shoulder; high splaying foot (hollow) with horizontal ridges; tall, wide cylindrical neck with flat, everted annular rim; vertical, double ribbed handle from shoulder to rim; small projections at each side of handle, one of which has an applied skeuomorphic clay rivet: slight depression on other side presumably represents missing comrade; irregular incised parallel lines on neck; protome vase spout on the shoulder: a simple trefoil spout and vertical strap handle; buff-orange clay with many small inclusions, originally covered with a red slip or paint, now almost completely disappeared; traces of white paint on body; black wreath noted in original catalogue now not apparent; foot slightly chipped.
- Production date
- 400BC-200BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 25.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- The shape and polychrome decoration begins in the Type VII group of the Cypro-Classical II period and continues down into Hellenistic I; chronologically they are not easily distinguished by style alone outside of a firmer archaeological context which is not available here. (See SCE IV/3, pp. 57-59 & 73).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1896
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1896,0201.198
