Gourd shaped jug
This jug was made in Bronze Age Cyprus. It is a called a ‘gourd shaped jug’ due to its shape. It has one angled handle stretching from the top of the body to the base of the neck, and decorated with wavy red lines.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 52/1963/4
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Southern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Burd, Mrs
- Material
- potteryRed on Black Slip ware
- Common Name
- gourd shaped jug
- Simple Name
- vessel
- Period Classification
- Cypriot Archaic - 750-500 BC
