amphora

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Object Type
Museum number: 1888,0927.31
Description: Pottery storage jar (amphora) in Red Slip ware; hand-made; spherical body on a round base; short neck with a horizontal everted rim; pair of opposing arched, horizontal handles; made of buff clay covered with a thin lustrous slip, fired a reddish-brown colour; decorated with raised bands and wavy-lines; rim chipped and surface worn in places with much accretion.
Cultures/periods: Middle Cypriot II; Middle Cypriot III
Production date: 1850 BC-1650 BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Ayia Paraskevi, tomb
Materials
Ware
Technique: handmade; slipped
Dimensions: Height: 20 centimetres
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1888
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1888,0927.31

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