Jug

For storing and pouring liquids.

Collected by Mr. Cesnola. Part of a collection made in Cyprus in 1873 and presented to the Metropolitan Museum for the 1875 opening.

Oinochoe made of red, fine-grained, hard-fired clay. Red slip, burnished in places, covers the entire surface. Black paint. Low ring foot, globular body, short narrow neck, pinched rim to form a trefoil mouth, vertical-grooved handle from rim to shoulder. Decoration consists of two bands on neck at junction of neck and body, and one horizontal group of circles on shoulder intersecting with a vertical group on each face. Subsidiary decoration consists of small concentric circles placed in the field. Lines on handle and around lip. In upper area opposite handle are three long crossing lines.