Amphora

49-12-944

From: Cyprus | Kourion | Kaloriziki

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 49-12-944
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Cyprus | Kourion | Kaloriziki
Site Name Kourion
Locus Tomb 33:94
Period Cypro-Geometric IA
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique White Painted I
Description

Nearly complete and mended. Small lug-like excrescence where handles join rim. Clay: light gray-brown to gray-green with fine dark sand. Paint: firm dark gray. 6 groups of bars on rim, 3 groups on handles. Paint on underside of rim, on sides of handles, at base of neck and on base. 3 wide bands at widest part of belly and 3 more on lower part of body. Neck, A: a symmetrical scheme with one elaborate panel of latticed-lozenges. The elaborate panel consists of a large double-outline lattice-lozenge flanked by 4 vertical lines on one side and 3 on the other, separated from a large single-outline lozenge by a narrow black stripe. The latter lozenge is subdivided into 5 latticed-lozenges and is flanked by 3 vertical lines. Adjoining to the right are latticed-lozenges, also bordered by 3 vertical lines; B: same scheme with similar isolated vertical band. The elaborate panel has two large single-outline lozenges subdivided (as above) and with flanking "wings".

Height 50.4 cm
Outside Diameter 41 cm
Credit Line Cyprus Expedition, J. F. Daniel, 1949
Other Number P677 - Field No SF

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