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- Museum number
- 1967,1103.9
- Description
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Pottery juglet in Tell el-Yahudiyeh ware; cylindrical body with flattish base and narrow neck opening, although the neck is now lost; made of grey-brown clay which originally had a dark slip, of which only traces are visible; decorated with incised zigzag patterns.
- Production date
- 1750 BC-1550 BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 7.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- No information about the specific findspot of this item was found apart from its being associated with the Cyprus Exploration Fund. Unless it was a casual find or acquired on the local antiquities market, the juglet must have come from a site of this date, therefore from a tomb at Kouklia or from Elenyia-Leondari Vouno (the latter of which might be the source of the Red Polished wares in this registration sequence).
Cylindrical forms of the Tell el-Yahudiyeh juglets were most popular in the southern Levant in the MBIIC period and are found in Cyprus in the MCIII and LCIA periods.
Bibliography:
Kaplan, M.F. (1980), The origin and distribution of Tell el-Yahudiyeh Ware. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology LXII (Götebörg: P. Åström).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition notes
- Collection found unregistered with 1967,11-1 and 1967,11-2.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1967,1103.9
