Jug
49-12-893
From: Cyprus | Kourion | Kaloriziki
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 49-12-893 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Cyprus | Kourion | Kaloriziki |
| Site Name | Kourion |
| Locus | Tomb 33:43 |
| Period | Cypro-Geometric IA |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Proto-White Painted I |
| Description | Mouth and much of base missing. Sprung. Paint mostly off. Plastic snake down handle. Clay-gray-green with fine dark sand. Paint: dark gray-purple. Paint on neck base. Belly dark with 2 narrow reserved lines under handle. Snake and sides of handle dark. 2 horizontal wavy lines on neck. 5 inverted latticed-triangles on shoulder. For an early occurence in Cyprus of similar plastic snakes on handle, cf. Vonous, pl. XXV:4, etc.; a later parallel: Dikaios, Guide, Pl. x:5. |
| Height | 15.7 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 10.1 cm |
| Credit Line | Cyprus Expedition, J. F. Daniel, 1949 |
| Other Number | P637 - Field No SF |
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