Kylix

69-35-920

From: Cyprus | Lapithos

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 69-35-920
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cypriot
Provenience Cyprus | Lapithos
Locus Tomb 54
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique White Painted III | White Painted II
Description

White painted Kylix; Complete; rim chipped; interior gouges; slip and paint entirely worn in spots; exposed fabric soft and powdery. Very low, hollow-stemmed, splayed foot; double curved body with upper part slightly convex and incurved at rim; plain rounded rim; 2 oblique horizontal handles on upper body. Interior: concentric circles at bottom; wide encircling band below rim. Exterior: stem and foot painted solid; encircling bands around lower body; on either side of upper body between handles, panel composed of double crosshatched lozenges, double crosshatched triangle, framed by 2 vertical lines on each side; wide encircling band below rim incised with 3 encircling lines (in imitation of Red Slip bowls).

Height 14.5 cm
Outside Diameter 23.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of Cincinnati Art Museum; Lapithos Cyprus Expedition 1931-1932; B. H. Hill, 1969
Other Number 964 - Field No SF | 8 - Other Number

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