Jug

32-27-621

From: Cyprus | Lapithos

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 32-27-621
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cypriot
Provenience Cyprus | Lapithos
Locus Tomb 53B
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Bichrome I
Description

Bichrome jug; Complete; slip and paint worn making it difficult to discern "two color paint" as indicated in original catalogue cards (from 1932). Ring Base; depressed ovoid with greatest diameter at low shoulder; tall nearly straight neck flaring near rim; rounded rim; strainer opening; short cut-away side strainer spout perpendicular to handle with flaring rounded rim; vertical handle from upper neck to shoulder. Band encircling juncture of base and lower body; bands encircling belly of which central one is reddish; band encircling upper shoulder, base of neck, exterior of rim; base of spout, interior of spout rim; framed vertical zig-zag pattern on handle. Also traces of paint on neck, top of main strainer opening, and exterior of spout.

Height 23.1 cm
Outside Diameter 16 cm
Credit Line Cyprus Expedition; B.H. Hill, 1932
Other Number 950 - Field No SF | 12 - Other Number

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