Amphora

49-12-859

From: Cyprus | Kourion | Kaloriziki

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 49-12-859
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Cyprus | Kourion | Kaloriziki
Site Name Kourion
Locus Tomb 33:6
Period Cypro-Geometric IA
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique White Painted I
Description

Nearly complete and mended. Clay: light gray-green with fine sand, well smoothed. Paint: dark purple-brown. 2 wide bands interior rim. Paint on rim, neck-base, base and foot. On bottom: 8 armed maltese cross. Handle and rim barred. Front: divided into 3 sets of horizontal and vertical panels by triple lines. Middle zones (vertical): horizontal barred band top and bottom, center, single-outlined horizontal latticed band. Left zone (vertical) 3 tiers of inverted solid triangles (top) 6 armed barred cross with vertical wavy line (center) latticed-lozenge and 2 inverted latticed-triangles. Right zone (vertical), 2 zones each per panel: thatching and chevrons (top): latticed lozenges and thaching (center), latticed triangles (a few outlined). A spotted added with extended toung climbs up through the tiers.

Height 18.9 cm
Width 15.3 cm
Outside Diameter 12.1 cm
Credit Line Cyprus Expedition, J. F. Daniel, 1949
Other Number P678 - Field No SF

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