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Object Type
Museum number: 1876,0909.48
Description: Pottery jug in Phoenician Red Slip ware of Cypro-Archaic date; ovoid body on a splaying foot; tall neck with a trefoil mouth; tall two-ribbed handle from shoulder to rim; yellowish-red clay with a thin, matt slip with signs of polishing; surface worn in places.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 750BC-600BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Cyprus
Materials
Ware
Technique: slipped; polished; wheel-made
Dimensions: Height: 23.20 centimetres
Curator's comments: Classified by Gjerstad as Red Slip II in SCE IV/2. See also Birmingham 1963, AJA 67 (1963), 25. Bibliography: Birmingham J. 1963, 'The chronology of some Early and Middle Iron Age Cypriot sites', AJA 67 (1963), 15-42.
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (C1016); SCE IV/2 / The Swedish Cyprus Expedition. Vol. IV. Part 2. The Cypro-Geometric, Cypro-Archaic and Cypro-Classical periods. (fig. XLIII, 10); Bikai 1987 / The Phoenician pottery of Cyprus (cat. no. 365)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1876
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1876,0909.48

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