Amphora

32-27-10

From: Cyprus | Lapithos

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 32-27-10
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cypriot
Provenience Cyprus | Lapithos
Locus Tomb 802A
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique White Painted IV
Description

White Painted IV amphora. Very light brown clay. White slip, thick black paint. Round base, squat ovoid body, cylindrical neck, downward everted rim; two opposed horned vertical handles from lower neck to upper body, each pierced twice. Decoration: horizontal bands of cross-hatched zigzags, cross-hatched joined inverted triangles, cross-hatched joined lozenges, broken multiple (five) zigzags; on base, a ross-hatched circle; on neck, cross-hatched horizontal band framed by wavy lines and groups of three horizontal lines; wavy line on rim; handles solid.

Height 26 cm
Outside Diameter 16.3 cm
Credit Line Cyprus Expedition; B.H. Hill, 1932
Other Number 21 - Field No SF | 23 - Other Number

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