jug
- Museum number
- 1868,0905.23
- Description
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Pottery juglet in Red Polished III ware; hand-made; globular body with rounded base and short concave neck with spouted cutaway rim; handle from neck to shoulder; deeply incised with concentric circles, parallel strokes, dots and wavy-lines with no obvious trace of lime fill; slipped and polished but surface very worn; intact.
- Production date
- 1950BC-1850BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 11.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Provenance:
All of the items in the sequence 1868,9-5.1-57 appear to be from the excavations in the Dali area in the early part of 1868, mentioned by Pierides in his letter to Newton dated 21 Feb. 1868 (Original Letters 1861-68, no. 590; see also Letter Book 1861-79, 1868 nos 16, 27 and 31). Pierides gives no details of the findspot(s) of the pottery which ranges in date from the Early and Middle Bronze Ages down to Cypro-Archaic times. Robert Hamilton Lang however relates that the initial focus of tomb digging around Dali this year took place at the base of a hill north of the village (with a well at the top known as Laksha Nicoli). It is not clear from his further observation that the local population then began to dig on a very large scale, if other cemeteries around Dali were also excavated at this time. His account implies however that the initial area of discovery was the one in which he and his colleagues - Pierides, Ceccaldi, Sandwith and Cesnola - concentrated their own digging activities (Lang 1878, 331-3), though it is quite likely that in addition all of these individuals purchased items from the local population. This might explain the chronological range of the Pierides group, though it is possible that the later material came from older cemeteries or tombs reused in the first millennium BC, if not from more than one site.
Bibliography:
Lang R.H. 1878, Cyprus: its history, its present resources, and future prospects (London).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Acquisition notes
- Probably the group of pottery from Dali mentioned in vendor's letter of 21st Feb 1868.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1868,0905.23
