Red Painted Jug

Title: Red Painted Jug
Inventory Number: A0135
Date Acquired: 1988
Source: Rex Toomey Gift
Provenance: Turkey
From Date: -199
To Date: -175
Description: Body bulbous in upper 2/3 with carination to almost straight-sided lower 1/3, low pedestal base; tall cylindrical neck with sharp horizontal ridge at top, vertical rim; broad handle deeply concave on exterior a central rib, from shoulder to raised ridge at top of neck. Shallow incisions at top and base of rim and defining shoulder: two close to base of neck, two slightly lower, and two more just above level of handle. Coated all over exterior and on inside of rim with dark paint.
State of Preservation: Badly chipped around edge of base, considerable incrustation over entire surface.
Height: 20.3 cm
Max Diameter: 15.1 cm
Rim Diameter: 4.35 cm
Base Diameter: 7.31 cm
Handle Width: 2.57 cm
Color: Clay body 2.5YR 6/6 (light red); paint mottled 10R 5/8 (red) to 10R 4/3 (weak red) and 10R 3/1 (dark reddish gray).
Type: vessel
Material: fired clay