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Object Type
Museum number: 1894,1101.422
Description: Small pottery spouted jug in White Painted ware; wheel-made; ovoid body with short conical neck; small conical spout on shoulder; single handle from shoulder to with conical spout (broken); pale clay and slip, decorated in dark brown paint: multiple parallel bands on the lower body, pendant concentric hooks, spirals of finer parallel lines on upper body, wavy line on the neck, single bands on the handle, spout and inside the mouth.
Cultures/periods: Cypro-Geometric III (?); Cypro-Archaic I (?)
Production date: 800BC-600BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Amathus, Site E, tomb 244
Materials
Ware
Type series
Technique: painted; slipped; wheel-made
Dimensions: Height: 10.20 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (C773); Murray, Smith and Walters 1900 / Excavations in Cyprus (p. 125 (Tomb 244)); SCE IV/2 / The Swedish Cyprus Expedition. Vol. IV. Part 2. The Cypro-Geometric, Cypro-Archaic and Cypro-Classical periods. (Fig. XIX,12)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Funder name
Acquisition date: 1894
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1894,1101.422

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