bottle
- Museum number
- 1896,0201.193
- Description
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Alabaster bottle; tall sack-shaped body on a flat bottom; short, concave neck rising with a horizontally projecting ridge below the rim; approximately half of the short rim is now missing.
- Production date
- 600BC-400BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 8.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- For a range of stone vessels from modern excavations at nearby Amathus (with references to examples from other sites on Cyprus), see M.-J. Chavane 1990, La nécropole d'Amathonte. Tombs 113-367. IV. Les petits objets, Nicosia, esp. 77-8 and his type F (bottles with flat bottoms:, though the only illustrated example, no. 659, is not a close match. No. 669 in his miscellaneous section (G) has a similar projecting ridge but a different body type.
Bibliography:
M.-J. Chavane 1990, La nécropole d'Amathonte. Tombs 113-367. IV. Les petits objets (Nicosia: Department of Antiquities; French School at Athens).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1896
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1896,0201.193