Pithos

Sherd

54-28-7

From: Cyprus | Kourion | Bamboula

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 54-28-7
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cypriot
Provenience Cyprus | Kourion | Bamboula
Site Name Kourion
Locus Near D, surface find
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Fragment from wall of pithos. wheelmade? Impressed with bull-fighting scene.

Decoration impressed from a seal. Two registers. Above, legs of a bull, feet of two men. Below, left to right, hind leg of bull; two men, semi-crouched; two bulls, horns interlocked, the left complete. Coarse clay with white grits, grey at core, surfaces fired orange-buff.

Height 5.9 cm
Width 11.9 cm
Thickness 3.3 cm
Credit Line Cyprus Expedition, George H. McFadden, 1954
Other Number SH720 - Field No SF

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