Jug
69-35-50
From: Cyprus | Lapithos
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | 69-35-50 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Cypriot |
Provenience | Cyprus | Lapithos |
Locus | Tomb 802A |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Technique | White Painted III |
Description | Tomb 2A = Herscher Tomb 802A. White Painted III jug with beak spout. Fragmentary. Fine hard light red clay with light gray interior. Light red to yellow slip; lustrous dark red to brown slip, black in one area. Round base, piriform body; cylindrical neck, spout not preserved; angular vertical handle, square in section, from rim to upper body; pointed lug at front neckline. Decoration (preserved): solid base; on body, vertical cross-hatched panels alternating with multiple vertical zigzags; on neck, horizontal wavy line framed by two straight lines; on handle, three vertical lines. Cf. _MCBA_, fig. VIII.5; for style of decoration, cf. 803B.11; _MCBA_. fig. VIII.7; _Missions_, pl. XXII.1. |
Height | 46 cm |
Outside Diameter | 27 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Cincinnati Art Museum; Lapithos Cyprus Expedition 1931-1932; B. H. Hill, 1969 |
Other Number | 61 - Other Number |
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