Amphora

49-12-501

From: Cyprus | Kourion | Kaloriziki

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 49-12-501
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Cyprus | Kourion | Kaloriziki
Site Name Kourion
Locus Tomb 23:3
Period Cypro-Geometric III
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique White Painted III
Description

Incomplete and mended. Handles, much of belly and neck missing. Rather wide base, heavy fat ovoid body, medium tapering neck with widely flairing rim. Clay: like 49-12-510. Paint: dark gray-purple. Decoration: like 49-12-510, but 4 vertical bands of latticed-lozenges, alternating with concentric circles on shoulders. Handle zone: horizontal wavy line with short nervous undulations.

Height 47.5 cm
Outside Diameter 37.4 cm
Credit Line Cyprus Expedition, J. F. Daniel, 1949
Other Number P573 - Field No SF

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