Cypriot White Painted III Earthenware Jug
Cypro-Geometric III (850-700BC). Height 16.5cm, width 8.7cm. Diameter of base 4.3cm, diameter of rim 4.1cm.
A jug with a conical foot, globular body, and concave neck. It has a flat basket handle at the rim and a raised spout on the shoulder that tapers upward. It is made of pinkish-buff clay with a semi-lustrous light buff slip and matte greyish-black paint. The neck and foot are painted. Lines encircle the shoulder and middle of the body. The handle is decorated with transverse lines and painted sides, while three vertical lines decorate the spout.
The location and find date of the object is not recorded. It has been suggested that it may have come from Amathus.
The jug was given as a gift by L.Z. Pierides to the Crown Prince of Sweden Gustaf Adolf in 1925 and later by The Museum of National Antiquities (now the Historiska museet). In 1956 it was moved to the Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden (Inv. No.: SHM 17946:0021) joining objects from the SCE in the wider Cyprus collection.