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
