barrel jug

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Object Type
Museum number: 1982,0729.282
Description: Pottery barrel jug in White Painted ware; wheel-made; elongated body with pointed ends; narrow concave neck with a flat, everted rim (squared profile); short handle from shoulder to neck, with a ridge at the junction; made of buff clay fired cream-white and decorated with black paint: vertical bands of sold and parallel lines around the handle, framing a vertical row of three sets of concentric circles; small ladder motif just below the handle; bull's-eye pattern on each end; fine parallel lines around the neck.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 600 BC-475 BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum; Excavated by: George Gordon Hake
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Gastria
Materials
Ware
Type series
Technique: painted; wheel-made
Dimensions: Height: 43.50 centimetres
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1982
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1982,0729.282
Additional IDs: Previous owner/ex-collection number: 224-1883 (V&A number)
Conservation

Free entry