Red Polished Juglet

This gourd-type juglet is known as Red Polished Ware, and shows one of the varieties of this ware. It has a bright red slip covering it, and is decorated with incisions which were then filled with white paste. It dates to the late 3rd millennium, which is the Early Cypriot Period (contemporary with the Early Bronze Age in the Levant), and was entirely handmade - that is, none of the shaping was done using the potter's wheel.