Cypriot White Slip II Earthenware Juglet
Late Cypriot II (1450–1200 BC). Height 16.5cm. Diameter 9cm, diameter of rim 4.3cm.
A juglet with an ovoid body, a tall, narrow concave neck, and a funnel-shaped rim. A flat handle runs from the neck to the shoulder, and the vessel stands on a high, splaying base. It is made of fine grey clay with a smooth cream slip, and decorated in matte dark brown paint.
The vessel is highly decorated; the base has a wavy cross and groups of parallel lines. The body and shoulder are decorated with ladder patterns and hatched lozenges. Horizontal lines, hatched lozenges, dots, and wavy lines decorate the neck and rim. The handle has transverse parallel lines..
The juglet was a gift from Charles Watkins Swedish Consul in Larnaca, Cyprus, in 1890 to the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. It is recorded as being probably from Kourion. The item was late deposited at the Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden (Inv. No.: NM Ant 1520) as part of the wider Cyprus Exhibition collection.