oinochoe

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Object Type: oinochoe
Museum number: 1880,0710.80
Description: Pottery jug in Red Slip ware or Phoenician Red Slip ware of Cypro-Archaic date; wheel-made; ovoid body on a splaying foot; tall neck with a trefoil spout; tall handle from shoulder to rim; buff clay and matt red slip; surface worn in places.
Cultures/periods: Cypro-Archaic I
Production date: 750BC-600BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector: Field Collection by: Colonel Falkland G.E Warren
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Amathus (historic) (?); Excavated/Findspot: Limassol (city) (?)
Materials: pottery
Ware: Red Slip Ware (Cyprus)
Type series: Red Slip II
Technique: slipped; wheel-made
Dimensions: Height: 18.70 centimetres
Curator's comments: See also J. Birmingham, AJA 67 (1963), p. 25.
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (C1017); SCE IV/2 / The Swedish Cyprus Expedition. Vol. IV. Part 2. The Cypro-Geometric, Cypro-Archaic and Cypro-Classical periods. (fig. XLIII, 11)
Location: On display (G72/dc14)
Acquisition name: Donated by: Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville (?)
Acquisition date: 1880
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1880,0710.80
Conservation: Treatment: 28 Nov 2012

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