Drab Polished jug with string holes and cut-away spout
Date1950-1650 BCE
PeriodMiddle Bronze Age
Object GeographyCyprus
CultureCypriot
MediumCeramic (handmade) with dark gray to reddish-brown slip, impressed circles, and lime-filled incised details
ClassificationCeramics
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN28.65
On View
Not on viewHeight: (6 5/16 in.) 16 cm
Width (with stringhole): (3 5/16 in.) 8.43 cm
Diameter (body): (3 3/16 in.) 8.11 cm
Spout
Length: (2 3/8 in.) 6 cm
Width (interior): (7/16 in.) 1.62-0.75 cm
Width (exterior): (7/8 in.)2.23 cm
Depth: (3/4 in.) 1.87 cm
Thickness: (1/8 in.) 0.36-0.39 cm
Stringholes
Length (exterior): (9/16 in.) 1.16-1.63 cm
Diameter (interior): (1/8 in.)0.33-0.41 cm; 0.36-0.37 cm
Neck
Width: (15/16 in.) 2.67 cm tapers to 2.05 cm
Handle
Diameter: (3/8 in.) 0.99-1.03 cm
Medium Details
Color
Fabric: 7.5 YR 6/4 (light brown) and blue-gray (10B 5/1, bluish gray) visible where lime spalls especially deep at spout
Slip 7.5YR 4/1 (dark gray) to 2.5YR 5/4 (reddish brown)
Inclusions
many sand, some small lime, few angular red, few small voids
