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Base Ring Jug

Place of OriginEgypt, Balabish necropolis, Tomb 38
Date18th–19th Dynasties (1550–1189 BCE)
Dimensions4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm)
Mediumterracotta with slip decoration
ClassificationCeramics
Credit LineEgypt Exploration Fund
Object number
1915.83
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Label TextThis small jug was made in Cyprus and discovered in Tomb 38 at Balabish, a cemetery in southern Egypt excavated in 1915. It belongs to the “Base Ring” ware type, a Cypriot pottery style widely traded during the Late Bronze Age (c. 1500–1200 BCE). Balabish tombs often included imported goods, showing Egypt’s strong trade ties with the eastern Mediterranean.Published ReferencesWainwright, Gerald Averay, Balabish: Thirty-Seventh Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Society, London, George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1920, p. 61-67, no. B 38.

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