Cypriot Iron Age pottery jug with incised body

A pottery jug with grey painted linear decoration on the upper body and unusual incised vertical lines on the lower body.

Culture
Cyprus, Early Iron Age, c. 1050-600 BC

Size
21 x 14 cms

Condition
Chipping to rim otherwise intact apart from the surface wear visible in the photographs

Provenance
Ex. private collection, London, UK; acquired from Helios Gallery in August 2000, formerly in a 1960’s-1970’s UK collection.