Enkomi Digitisation Project

A805

Object type
Jug
Tomb No (findspot)
A805
Ware
White Painted VI
Chronology
1650-1550 B.C.
Dimensions
Height: 28cm
Diameter: ca 6.8cm (rim)
Bibliography
Ǻström 1972, 58
Preservation
Restored from fragments, rim and parts of body missing.
Fabric Description
Soft yellowish buff fabric with small dense dark inclusions, slip in similar colour and dark brown paint.

Description
Trefoil rim, long cylindrical neck, vertical strap handle from mid neck to shoulder, globular body, and slightly flattened base. Shape leaning backwards.

Decoration
Decorated with three parallel thick bands on the neck and the base of the neck, diagonal bands on the handle zone, filled with a net pattern inbetween them, a transversely diagonal set of bands with two wavy lines in-between, four sets of four vertical lines terminating at the base and a vertical band on the handle.