bowl;
skyphos
- Museum number
- 1891,0806.71
- Description
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Four non-joining fragments of a pottery bowl (skyphos) in Bichrome ware, restored with plaster infill as approximately half a complete vessel; wheel-made; deep body on a flat base; remains of one horizontal side-handle; made or orange-buff clay with a lighter slip and matt black and red paint; panels of quatrefoils framed by zig-zags; solid paint on inside surface of the vessel.
- Production date
- 750 BC-600 BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 12 centimetres (rim)
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Height: 7 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Marked with an 'F' on the base sherd which might suggest it was found close to the highest point of the site explored by the CEF though this is not certain. The description of the discoveries in Site F include pottery of this date and general type (i.e. Bichrome wares) but nothing specifically with this type of decoration (Munro and Tubbs 1891, 146-7). At the same time, this is an example of what Munro and Tubbs recognised as a 'Cypriote Geometric cup', what are now regarded as local imitation of imported Greek Late Geometric wares. Some sherds from terracotta statues allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum and transferred to the BM in 1909 were also marked with an 'F' and it is possible that the base fragment was recognised as joining the sherds from the same vessel in the BM, in which case the letter refers to the museum and not to archaeological site, so this attribution must be regarded as possible but unconfirmed.
The vessel as described by Calvet and Yon in GGAPC as Eubean or Cycladic but Coldstream (1979, 263, no. 11) reclassifies it as a local imitation of an Aegean Late Geometric type.
Bibliography:
Coldstream J.N. 1979, 'Geometric skyphoi in Cyprus', RDAC, 254-69.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1891,0806.71
