alabastron
- Museum number
- 1894,1101.245
- Description
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Alabaster alabastron; cylindrical body tapering at the neck with flat everted rim and two lug handles; polished.
- Production date
- 600 BC-50 BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 9.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- For Cypriot parallels from established archaeoloigcal contexts see: SCE IV/2, fig. 39 no 38 (Marion); Chavane 1990, 78-80, esp. 588-656 passim and pl. XVIII (Amathus); Salles and Chavane 2003, 336-7 nos 811-19 and figs 263, 265 (Kition- Bamboula, Hellenistic levels).See Chavane 1990, 77-8 for a general comment (with bibliography) on the difficulty of dating these vessels on form alone.
Bibliography:
Chavane, M.-J. 1990, La nécropole d'Amathonte. Tombs 110-385. IV. Les petits objets (Nicosia).
Salles, J.-F. and Chavane, M.-J. 2003, 'Les petits objets' in J.-F. Salles ed. Kition-Bamboula IV. Les niveaux héllenistiques (Paris), 331-46.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1894
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1894,1101.245
