Jug with trefoil mouth
This is a ring based Archaic Ware amphora with a bulbous body and thin neck. It has a pinched lip and one flat handle and is decorated with black and cream bands round the body and one set of concentric black circles on the shoulder. It was made in the Cypriot Iron Age. It is one of many objects found in “tombs in the neighbourhood of Paphos” and given to the museum in 1910.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 913/1910
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Southern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Barrett, W.E.
- Material
- potteryBichrome Red I Ware
- Common Name
- jug with trefoil mouth
- Simple Name
- vessel
- Production Year Low
- -750
- Production Year High
- -475