flask
- Museum number
- 1864,1007.1582
- Description
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Two-handled pottery flask.
Clay: pale brown clay, small white grits, dull black paint.
Shape: narrow concave neck flaring to torus lip, with a sharp ridge level with upper handle attachments, passing gently into globular body; slight ridge on the shoulder.
Decoration: Neck, paint to below handle attachments; lines. Shoulder, three zones of latticed lozenges in small panels, the third passing under the handles. Below, band between lines; lower body reserved; paint on foot, smear above. Handles coated. Broad band inside rim.
- Production date
- 730BC-710BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 24 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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CVA:
The shape is based on a Cypriot Black-on-Red prototype, represented by an import in Ialysos grave 51: J. Jacopi, Clara Rhodos: Scavi nella necropolis di Ialisso 1924-1928 vol. 3 (Rhodes 1929), 85, fig. 78. Cf. also another adaptation with local ornament: G. Jacopi, Clara Rhodos: Esplorazione archeologica di Camiro II vols. 6-7 (Rhodes 1932-3), 35, fig. 38, from Kameiros grave 8.
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Atrributed to Kamiros child's grave based on evidence from Biliotti's marking on the object (excavation day on label), Biliotti's Kamiros diary, Kamiros tomb list, British Museum register. Description in Biliotti's Kamiros diary: Vessel, kind of gourde. Egyptian style two handles, narrow neck, wide mouth, black bands and lines on ash colour ground (1 entire).
Attributions to find-spots are based on (1) Alfred Biliotti’s diary kept during excavations at Kamiros between November 1863 and June 1864, which records the contents of two votive deposits and over 300 graves; (2) entries in the Museum Register, often stipulating the find- spots of individual objects excavated by Biliotti; (3) the Kamiros tomb list, produced around the same time as his entries in the Museum Register. It lists the contents of each grave and votive deposit, along with their corresponding registration numbers; (4) the Kamiros index cards, written by Donald Bailey in the 1960’s. These mainly record the contents of graves from the Fikellura cemetery and are organised according to tomb group; (5) the Kamiros well list, which is based upon the Kamiros tomb list with additions by Reynold Higgins and Virginia Webb. All archives are kept in the Department of Greece and Rome. In addition, Viriginia Webb’s Archaic Greek Faience (1978) has been checked for attributions to Kamiros acropolis.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Complete.
- Acquisition date
- 1864
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1864,1007.1582