juglet
- Museum number
- 1899,1229.23
- Description
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Pottery juglet in Black Slip ware; wheel-made; ovoid-piriform body on narrow splaying foot (now missing) decorated with slightly curved flutings applied with a tool; relatively tall cylindrical neck with a chamfered rim, small encircling neck-ridge at junction with body; thin strap handle arching from shoulder to neck; buff-orange clay covered with a matt black slip, worn in places.
- Production date
- 1050BC-900BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 9 centimetres (max)
- Curator's comments
- For the type, see SCE IV/2, fig. IX nos 11-12. Numerous examples were found in tombs excavated by the Department of Antiquities in the modern times, the best documented of which are those from the cemetery of Skales.
Bibliography:
Karageorghis V. (1983), Palaepaphos-Skales. An Iron Age cemetery in Cyprus. Ausgrabungen in Alt-Paphos auf Cypern 3 (Konstanz: Universitatsverlag Konstanz).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1899
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1899,1229.23
