cup

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Object Type: cup
Museum number: 1872,0315.165
Description: Pottery cup (Furumark Shape 230). Painted with sets of red parallel chevrons (FM 58). Thick and thin bands at base. Band at rim. Handle solid painted with reserved triangle at rim.
Cultures/periods: Late Helladic IIIA2
Production date: 1375BC-1300BC
Production place: Made in: Greece
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Sir Alfred Biliotti
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Ialysus (historic), tomb 27
Materials: pottery
Type series: Furumark FS 230
Technique: painted
Dimensions: Diameter: 10.20 - 10.50 centimetres (rim); Diameter: 3.70 centimetres (base); Diameter: 105 millimetres; Height: 72 millimetres; Weight: 133 grammes; Width: 120 millimetres; Depth: 102 millimetres
Curator's comments: p. 123 Mee, C. (1982), Rhodes in the Bronze Age.
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (A841); Furumark 1941 / The Mycenaean Pottery. Analysis and Classification. (FS 230:5); Mountjoy 1999 / Regional Mycenean Decorated Pottery (Rhodes 51) (p. 1005)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name: From: Sir Alfred Biliotti
Funder name: Funded by: John Ruskin
Acquisition date: 1872
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1872,0315.165
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 25; Miscellaneous number: 27

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