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54-41-47

From: Cyprus | Kourion | Bamboula

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 54-41-47
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cypriot
Provenience Cyprus | Kourion | Bamboula
Site Name Kourion
Locus Tomb 4
Period Cypro-Archaic II | Cypro-Archaic I
Date Made 500 BCE-400 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Bichrome Red V
Description

Complete except for rim. Handle mended. Long, narrow tapering neck. Sperical but somewhat sagging body. Ring base. Bi-partite figure 7 handle. Clay reddish brown with large white bits. Reddish brown slip on surface, burnished to luster with vertical strokes. Matt black paint; rings below trefoil rim and one at base of neck. Paint on sides of handles. Two groups of three horizontal bars on back of handle. On each side at center: a small "bull's eye" pattern enlivened by two circles in white matt paint. Near shoulder concentric circles within large concentric rings. Around the shoulder horizontally a wide bank of concentric rings. On front: (lower) "bull's eye" pattern and three pendant groups of concentric circles; (upper) two vertical rows of three groups of concentric circles. Back: three pendant groups of concentric circles.

Height 29.2 cm
Outside Diameter 20.5 cm
Credit Line Cyprus Expedition, 1954
Other Number P1730 - Field No SF

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