Vessel, Jug, black slip ware, buccero
Production date
1050 BCE-700 BCE
Country
Cyprus
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Object detail
Description
Jug - Wheel made. Black Slip I Ware (Buccero) jug (Cypro-Geometric 1050-700 BC). Ovoid body with splaying conical foot and a narrow concave neck widening to trefoil mouth. Features a high vertical handle, oval in section, from rim to shoulder. Cream-buff clay covered with thick slightly lustrous black slip, evenly applied on body and inside rim but not on underside of foot. Deep roughly parallel incised vertical grooves on body, pendent from three narrow incised vertical grooves on body, pendent from three narrow incised encircling lines on shoulder. Rim chipped and repaired. (Webb, Jennifer M., 1997 "Corpus of Cypriote Antiquities", Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, Vol. XX)
Classification
DOMESTIC EQUIPMENT Food and Drink Consumption jug
ARCHAEOLOGY Cypriot jug
ARCHAEOLOGY Cypriot jug
Production date
1050 BCE-700 BCE
Production place
Measurements
L130mm x W93mm x D85mm
Media/Materials description
Cream-buff clay covered with thick slightly lustrous black slip, evenly applied on body and inside rim but not on underside of foot.
Signature/Marks
Deep roughly parallel incised vertical grooves on body, pendent from three narrow incised vertical grooves on body, pendent from three narrow incised encircling lines on shoulder.
History and use
The dark slip and incised vertical grooves on this jugley may reference metal vases.
Associated person
Registration number
H12682
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