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Juglet (white painted IV-V ware)
1900 BCE-1575 BCE

Medium
earthenware
Measurements
14.4 × 7.6 cm diameter
Place/s of Execution
Cyprus
Accession Number
1852-D5
Department
Antiquities
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Colonel Aubrey H. L. Gibson (Rtd), 1968
Gallery location
Not on display
Physical description
Small hand built vessel with ovoid body, narrow neck and beaked mouth. Single handle joining vessel at lower neck and shoulder and three pinched out projections or lugs (two on the neck and one where the neck meets the upper body). Flattened base. Surface is off-white with geometric designs painted on in brown. There are horizontal lines on the neck and the body is divided into two registers. In the upper are hatched triangles, in the lower triple zig-zags. A wavy line encircles the base on which are painted two circles. Also two vertical wavy lines on the body.