Amphora

Object Number:

49-12-456

Current Location:

Collections storage

Provenience:

Cyprus
Kourion
Kaloriziki

Locus:

Tomb 18:20

Period:

Cypro-Archaic I

Section:

Mediterranean

Materials:

Ceramic

Technique:

White Painted IV

Description:

Complete but chipped. Slightly tapering neck; rather high ring base. Clay: gritty gray at core to pink and gray-blue. Paint: thin gray-purple. 2 bands on interior rim. Horizontal zigzag on outer face of rim. Neck solid but for band of narrow reserved lines just under rim and below mid-neck. Below handles 2 wide bands. Paint on handles continued down onto body. Handle-zone: horizontal wavy line with short gentle undulations. Mid-shoulder: outlined zone of multiple fine bends.

Height:

45cm

Outside Diamater:

35.3cm

Credit Line:

Cyprus Museum Expedition, J. F. Daniel

Other Number:

P281	-	Field No SF
K449	-	Other Number

Bibliography:

[Book] Benson, J. L., et al. 1973. The Necropolis of Kaloriziki; excavated by J.F. Daniel and G.H. McFadden for the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 138. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 92

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