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Description: | This jug from Bronze Age Cyprus was made to hold oil or wine. Its bulbous body is decorated with Proto-Geometric bands of colour. The tapered neck and moulded handle meet to form a trefoil mouth.
A lekythos or oinochoe vessel, tapering neck and trefoil mouth with Proto-geometric decoration. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Alcoholic drink Decorative arts Archaeology Bronze age | Temporal: | Bronze Age | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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