jar
- Museum number
- 1933,0613.3
- Description
-
Pottery jar in White Painted V ware; handmade; globular-biconical body with wide neck and everted rim; the bowl is pierced, possibly for suspension, at each side at the junction of the body and the neck; very fine, well levigated clay with buff-cream slip decorated in black paint: outside, on the shoulder, a frieze of hatched triangles with groups of dots in between, framed by parallel bands on bottom and a 'swag' within parallel lines below the rim; bands of vertical parallel lines at regular intervals hang below this register and meet underneath the bowl; on the interior, a frieze of 'swags' framed by vertical parallel lines.
- Production date
- 1750BC-1550BC
- Dimensions
-
Height: 6 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- SCE IV/1B, p. 68, Type IV(a) for further examples.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition notes
- Found unregistered, probably acquired c. 1910.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1933,0613.3
