jar

Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Object Type
Museum number: 1888,0927.29
Description: Pottery storage jar ('amphora') in Red Polished III ware; handmade; globular body with a rounded base and a tall cylindrical neck with everted rim; pair of opposing horned handles from lower neck to shoulder; made of fairly fine buff clay covered with a polished orange-red slip, decorated with lime-filled incisions: zig-zags and bands composed of parallel lines on the body, hatched lozenges; surface worn in places.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 2100 BC-1900 BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Ayia Paraskevi, tomb
Materials
Ware
Type series: Red Polished III; Stewart Type (VII A2 p3)
Technique: handmade; incised; slipped; polished
Dimensions: Height: 33 centimetres
Curator's comments: Smith 1888, 265-6 discusses the group of objects donated by Falkland Warren; see also Walters 1897, 71-3 no. 16. Bibliography: C. Smith 1888, 'British Museum', The Classical Review, 2,8 Walters, H.B. 1897: 'On some antiquities of the Mycenaean Age recently acquired by the British Museum'. JHS XVII,
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (C73); Stewart CCAEBA / Corpus of Cypriot artefacts of the Early Bronze Age (Part II, p. 121. VII a2, type p3, no. 9); CVA British Museum 1 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 1, British Museum 1 (pl. 4.4)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1888
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1888,0927.29

Free entry

Opening hours