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Object Type
Museum number: 1894,1101.548
Description: Two-handled drinking cup (cantharos) in Black Slip ware; wheel-made; biconical body on a flaring ring base; tall cylindrical neck with an everted rim; pair of opposing loop handles; body decorated with vertical ridges; made of sandy buff clay covered with a black slip; base and rim chipped, surface worn in many places.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1050 BC-900 BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Amathus, Site E, tomb 241
Materials
Ware
Type series: Black Slip I (?); Black Slip II (?)
Technique: wheel-made; slipped
Dimensions: Height: 14 centimetres
Curator's comments: For comparable shapes, see SCE IV/2, fig. X, 12 (BS I) and fig. X XVII, 4 (BS II). The slender foot on the present example is closer to the BS I example.
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Funder name
Acquisition date: 1894
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1894,1101.548

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