barrel jug
- Museum number
- 1908,0411.39
- Description
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Pottery barrel-shaped jug in Black-on-Red ware; wheel-made; barrel-shaped jug with a narrow neck, central neck-ridge and flaring trumpet mouth; single handle from shoulder to neck-ridge; buff clay and red-orange slip, decorated in black paint: large spiral motif ending in a small nipple on each end of the 'barrel', bands of parallels lines around the body and upper part of neck, large geometric dart motif below the neck, single wavy line around the neck above the ridge, solid handle.
- Production date
- 900BC-750BC (circa)
- Curator's comments
- See E. Gjerstad, SCE IV/2, fig. XXV, no. 6 for comparable shape (GR 1908, 4-11.31); N. Schreiber, 'The Cypro-Phoenician pottery of the Iron Age', (2003).
- Location
- On display (G72/dc16)
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired by purchase. Perhaps 1917.7-1 ?
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1908,0411.39
