vessel-fitting;
vase
- Museum number
- 1894,1101.526
- Description
-
Pottery spout in the form of bull-head, broken from a zoomorphic vessel or a composite vessel such as a ring-vase (possibly 1894,11-1.525 but this is uncertain) made in White Painted/Bichrome ware; wheel-made with applied details; half of the left-hand horn is preserved and the stump of the spout in the position of the mouth; remains of a double-rib handle at the back of the head, probably from a basket-handle extending across the top of the original vessel; made from fairly fine orange-buff clay decorated with red-purple paint: hatched lozenges and bands on the ndy, bands on the horns.
- Production date
- 1050 BC-900 BC
- Curator's comments
- For parallels see Pieridou 1971 and Bignasca 2000, cat. C21-48 passim. See Karageorghis and Iacovou 1990, no. 96 (with discussion on pp 91-2) for a ring vase from Amathus Tomb 521 which included contained several vessels with zoomorphic vessels of the kind this item might also have bene attached to.
Bibliography:
Bignasca A. 2000, I kernoi circolari in Oriente e in Occidente. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 19 (Freiburg: Universitätsverlag Freiburg Schweiz; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht).
Pieridou A. 1971, 'Κυπριακά τελετουργικά αγγεία', RDAC 1971, 18-26.
Karageorghis V. and Iacovou M. 1990, 'Amathus Tomb 521: A Cypro-Geometric I group', RDAC, 75-100.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1894
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1894,1101.526