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Object Type
Museum number: 1899,1229.107
Description: Pottery juglet with a black slip; piriform body on a low rounded base; relatively tall, narrow neck, with slightly concave sides; oval-sectioned handle arching from shoulder to rim; everted rim; partly worn black lustrous slip.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1650BC-1550BC (circa)
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: The British Museum; Excavated by: Francis Bertram Welch; Excavated by: Percy Christian
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Klavdia, Tomb A2
Materials
Ware
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 10 centimetres
Curator's comments: Classified by Malmgren as Black Lustrous Wheelmade, but the fabric resembles Black Slip wares. The vessel may be an attempt to imitate or echo imported Tell Yahudiyeh juglets.
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (C195); Malmgren 2003 / Klavdhia-Tremithos. A Middle and Late Cypriote Bronze Age site. (no. 62, p. 41); Kiely 2011d / Klavdia-Tremithos: A Bronze Age community in south-east Cyprus (A2.1)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition date: 1899
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1899,1229.107

Free entry