Jug Item Number: M1.34 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Miniature buff-yellow clay jug with one handle and black designs. Jug made from fine-grained, hard-fired clay with a yellowish-white slip over entire surface. The squat broad body sits on a low ring foot. The shoulders slope in sharply at the mid-point to a narrow with a handle ridge. The rim is everted. The vertical handle is attached at the ridge and shoulder. The designs are painted with a gray-black matte paint. The designs consist of a ring of triangles on the rim and three horizontal bands, two straight and one wavy, on the neck. There is a frieze of concentric circle ornaments on upper half of body below which is a group of horizontal bands. There is a band just below the shoulders on the lower body.
History Of Use
For storing and pouring liquids.
Cultural Context
funerary gift
Narrative
White painted V Ware. Cypro-Archaic.
Item History
- Made in Cyprus between 726 BCE and 476 BCE
- Collected during 1914
- Owned by Sid Leary before 1950
- Owned by Florence Leary between 1950 and June 1957
- Received from Florence Leary (Donor) during June 1957
What
Who
- Culture
- Cypriot
- Previous Owner
- Sid Leary and Florence Leary
- Received from
- Florence Leary (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Cyprus
When
- Creation Date
- between 726 BCE and 476 BCE
- Collection Date
- during 1914
- Ownership Date
- before 1950 and between 1950 and June 1957
- Acquisition Date
- during June 1957
Other
- Item Classes
- ceramics
- Condition
- fair
- Current Location
- Case 96
- Accession Number
- 2189/0064