Cypriot Juglet with zig-zags.: Early Cypriot IIIB – Middle Cypriot I (2050-1850BC

A common Red Polished III ware juglet shape in the ECIII-MCI but with unusual incised decoration. Such small, narrow-necked containers probably had stoppers and contained oil.  

Complete, good, handle reattached, some pitting, mostly on underside.

Piriform jug with round bottom, narrow, tapering neck with sharply everted rim. A loop handle from top of body to rim, with a lug opposite at top of body. Lustrous red slip, paler and yellower on body, with incised, lime filled decoration. On the body 12 vertical hatched panels each with a central, single side-step. Multiple lines round upper neck, then pendant concentric semi-circles plus 3 more lines at base.

Cf: Dikaios & Stewart 1962 fig XCII (7-9);