Jug

Description

This is a flat based jug with a squat round bellied shape, a short neck and a trefoil spout. It has a tall, rounded, vertical handle and its cream coloured clay is overlaid with brown decorated with bands of brown-black around its body. Written on the jug is the word ‘Scandia’ which is a term used by some Greek and Roman geographers for islands in Northern Europe. This word must have been written on the vessel by the person who found or collected it, but unfortunately no records survive to show who this was.

Accession Loan No.

432/1975

Collection Class

Foreign archaeology

Common Name

jug

Simple Name

vessel

Full Name

jug

Cultural Group

Greek?

Family Group



Material

pottery

Collection Continent

Europe