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Object Type
Museum number: 1982,0729.519
Description: Pottery Black Slip jug; wheel-made; wheel-made; ovoid body on a ring base; short narrow with trefoil spout; vertical hand from shoulder to lip; orange clay with a matt black slip (eroded in places) , decorated with incised fluting: three carefully incised grooves around the shoulder with rather more freehand vertical flutes around the body; base chipped.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1050BC-900BC
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: Salamis (Cyprus) (?); Excavated/Findspot: Gastria (?); Excavated/Findspot: Kourion (?)
Materials
Ware
Type series: Black Slip I (BS I-II); Black Slip II
Technique: slipped; incised; wheel-made
Dimensions: Height: 8.80 centimetres
Curator's comments: See D. Bailey, Op. Ath. VI (1965), pp. 5-13 for details of the Hake-Kitchener excavations.
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1982
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1982,0729.519
Additional IDs: Previous owner/ex-collection number: 555.69-1883 (V&A number)

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