Bichrome jug with mushroom-shaped lip
Date8th century BCE
Periodearly Archaic
CulturePhoenician
MediumCeramic (wheelmade) with red and black paint
ClassificationCeramics
ProvenanceFound by Luigi Palma di Cesnola (American Consul to Cyprus, 1865–1876); purchased by subscription by the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1874–1876; (sale, the Anderson Galleries, New York), April 21, 1928; purchased by John Ringling; bequest to The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1936-present.
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN28.291
On View
Not on viewHeight: 7 5/8 in. (19.3 cm)
Diameter (body): 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm)
Thickness (wall, at neck): 3/16 in. (0.46 cm)
Rim
Diameter (exterior): 3 1/8 in. (7.89-7.95 cm)
Diameter (interior): 1 11/16 in. (4.22 cm)
Neck
Diameter (exterior): 1 5/8 in. (4.05 cm bottom)
Diameter (narrowest): 1 3/8 in. (3.48 cm)
Diameter (at ridge): 1 5/8 in. (4.08 cm)
Diameter (at base of rim): 1 11/16 in. (4.29 cm)
Diameter (interior): 15/16 in. (2.31 cm)
Handle
Width: 5/8 in. (1.65 cm)
Thickness: 5/16 in. (0.85 cm)
Height: 1 11/16 in. (4.25 cm)
Base
Diameter (exterior): 2.0 in. (5.05 cm)
Medium Details
Color
Fabric: 10YR 7/4 (very pale brown); core 7.5YR 6/4 (light brown); surface 10YR 7/3 (very pale brown) to 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow)
Paint: 10R 4/4 (weak red) to 10R 5/6 (red) and N 2.5/ (black)
Inclusions
many tiny sand, some small red (ochre?), few small voids, few tiny lime (the small red have smeared with the burnishing of the jug). Few larger spalls possibly of large lime or gravel
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