Amphora

49-12-499

From: Cyprus | Kourion | Kaloriziki

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 49-12-499
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Cyprus | Kourion | Kaloriziki
Site Name Kourion
Locus Tomb 23:1
Period Cypro-Geometric III
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique White Painted III
Description

Incomplete and mended. Small round base, rather tall ovoid body, wide neck flaring to undercut and overhanging half-round rim. Clay: light pinkish brown to gray-green with fine sand. Paint: thin purple-brown. Paint interior rim, below rim exterior and at neck-base. Paint on handles. 3 wide bands above and below handle-zone, a single band near base. Neck: two horizontal lines above and below metopes separated by 3 vertical lines. 4 metopes with "winged" lozenges, subdivided into 2 latticed-lozenges. These alternate with large X's (though there are 2 successive x's at one point). Shoulder: 5 lozenges as on neck. Handle-zone: thick, double horizontal wavy lines with short nervous undulations.

Height 55.8 cm
Outside Diameter 40 cm
Credit Line Cyprus Expedition, J. F. Daniel, 1949
Other Number P575 - Field No SF

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