Cypriot WPW stringhole jug: Middle Bronze Age II-III (1850-1650BC)

White Painted Ware, Stringhole type  jug on three small legs.  It has a dropper spout which provides the filling point but also allows a better flow of liquid by introducing air.  The end of this has broken off and been restored for 1-2cm.  However this is too short: it should be 2-3cm longer.  I will have the restoration removed and probably remade in a more idiomatic manner, for which there are many extant examples to copy.  The so called stringholes are probably just a decorative elaboration of the  pierced lugs common from the Early Cypriot I onwards, originally probably so that  the items could be hung on a peg in the wall with a string or thong. The dropper spout and rows of triangles in the decoration suggest it is possibly from the Lapithos area or just possibly the Mesaoria.

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