Stirrup Jar
MS143
From: Cyprus | Tamassos
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS143 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Graeco-Phoenician |
| Provenience | Cyprus | Tamassos |
| Period | Late Bronze Age | Late Helladic IIIC |
| Date Made | 1000 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Wheel Made | Painted |
| Iconography | Sea Plant | Fish? |
| Description | Fragment of stirrup jar: disc mouth, one handle, part of shoulder. Mouth: collared at center, around round hole, upper edge of collar scalloped. Decoration on upper face - 4 sets of diminishing arcs, solidly glazed at the center. Handle triple: spiral central part between flat bands, on bands chevrons. On shoulder arcs: filled by sets of smaller concentric arcs, 3 sets on each. Below concentric lozenges and formalized sea plants and fish(?). Clay purplish pink, decoration in dull black paint, much peeled, Wheel made. |
| Height | 18.4 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 9.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Max Ohnefalsch-Richter, 1895 |
| Other Number | 243 - Collector Number | MS484 - Old Museum Number |
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