Jug with cut-away spout

MediumClay

DimensionsHEIGHT: 20 5/16 in. (51.6 cm)
DIAMETER: 12 1/8 in. (30.8 cm) (body)

ClassificationsCeramics

Credit LineMuseum Acquisition, 1973

Object numberSN74.2

This jug was found in Lapatsa, tomb 15 on Cyprus. It dates to the earliest phase of Cypriot pottery in the Bronze Age (c. 2500-1050 B.C.). In this period all pottery was made by hand rather than by a potter's wheel, and the main types were Black and Red Polished wares. The Ringling object was painted with a red slip and then burnished to create a shiny polish. Red Polished ware was introduced into Cyprus by immigrants from Anatolia on the coast of modern Turkey who settled there around the middle of the third millennium B.C. Although this example is unadorned, oftentimes linear motifs were incised and filled with lime to decorate the vessel. The shapes include mostly jugs with a cutaway neck and flat base.

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