 A
juglet with a tiny mouth, made of buff clay, with a beautifully shaped
globular body tapering off to a small disc button base. The upper half
was made separately and then joined to the bottom half without the pronounced
parallel lines on the surface of the bottom half. The long neck ends in
a mouth which is delicately profiled ending in a rim which spreads outward
and is unfortunately cracked. The double handle is made of two pieces of
clay pressed together for strength and is perched elegantly on the shoulder
of the juglet.
Ruth Amiran, one of the greatest ceramic specialists of Biblical Archaeology, writes in Ancient Pottery of the Holy Land from its beginnings in the Neolithic Period to the End of the Iron Age (Jerusalem: Masada Press, 1969): "The extensive range of forms of the jugs and juglets illustrates the inventiveness of MB II A potters" (p.106). Origin: Possibility Jericho. |