The vase belongs to the class of Base-Ring Ware, which was widely diffused in Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age. The ware owes its name to the ring base usually present on jugs and cups of this type. Base-Ring vases are handmade and have fine yet resistant walls, which give a metallic texture to the dark, highly burnished surface. The repertoire of shapes includes wide-mouthed jugs, juglets, lentoid flasks, cups, bowls and ‘teapots’, as well as rhyta. These are usually decorated in relief with wavy and spiral patterns; painted decoration is less common. Juglets with long narrow neck and funnel mouth are common as grave goods in Cyprus. They are also found in large quantities at other places in the Mediterranean (Egypt, Levant, Aegean and Sicily), either as imports from Cyprus or as locally produced imitations. These clay vessels seem to have been used for aromatic oils or, perhaps, for opium, the therapeutic qualities of which were known in antiquity. This view is supported by the discovery of opium residues in some vessels of this type and by the fact that, when inverted, the shape of the vase resembles the poppy capsule.