A Tell el-Yahudiyeh grey ware juglet, featuring a cylindrical neck and a folded rim. The vessel sits on a small rounded base, featuring a piriform body and one single bilobate applied handle extends from the rim to the shoulder. Geometric design of impressed patterns composing of a dotted band enclosed by two bands of diagonal lines decorates the body whilst two encircling bands further embellish the shoulder, below the handle. Earthly encrustations covers the surface. Tell el-Yahudiyeh Ware refers to a distinctive terracotta production of the late Middle Bronze Age-Second Intermediate Period, recovered for the first time in the Tell el-Yahudiyeh site, located in the eastern Nile Delta in Egypt. However, pottery of this type have been recovered also in Cyprus and in the Levantine region. It was first identified as a distinctive ware type by the famous archeologist Sir Flinders Petrie during his excavations on site. These wares are defined by their distinctive mode of decoration, applied after slipping and burnishing, and created by repeatedly “pricking” the surface of the vessels with a sharp object in order to create a large array of patterns, which appear in the form of lines, stripes, triangles, squares and, rarely, circles. Measurements: H 15.5cm x W 11cm Provenance: Acquired prior to 1988. From an important deceased gentleman's collection, by descent.