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Object Type
Museum number: 1884,1210.39
Description: Pottery juglet in White Painted III-V String-hole Style ware; handmade; globular body with round base and forward-sloping cylindrical neck with a beaked mouth and a string-hole on either side, handle from base of neck to shoulder; orange-buff clay and slip with brown painted hatched decoration.
Cultures/periods: Middle Cypriot II (MCII-III); Middle Cypriot III
Production date: 1850 BC-1650 BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Phoenikiais, tomb
Materials
Ware
Type series
Technique: handmade; painted; slipped
Dimensions: Height: 14 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (C282); SCE IV/1B / The Swedish Cyprus Expedition. Vol. IV/ 1B The Middle Cypriot Bronze Age (V 3 C2c, p. 36); CVA British Museum 1 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 1, British Museum 1 (pl. 5.34)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1884
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1884,1210.39

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