Identification Number: Schmidt K 83

Kerkenes Inventory ID: Schmidt K 83

Classification: Painted

Finding Type: Jug

Item: Jug with one handle

Material: Clay

Images

Photograph from Schmidt 1929.

Description

Jug with one handle, with circular cross-section. Bottom flat, slightly concave. Paste medium, light brown. Surface outside reddish buff, smooth; inside light brown and grainy; wheel marks on upper body. Decorated with a greyish-black pigment of somewhat metallic lustre. Eight parallel lines, well drawn, encircle shoulder, but are terminated at each side of handle by two vertical lines. Below follows a band of oblique double lines forming a zigzag pattern, bordered below by four more parallel lines.

Dimensions

Diameter of body: 40 cm. Extant height: 36 cm.

Context

Schmidt Test Trench 4, floor.

Publication

Schmidt AJSL 1929: K 83.