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Object Type: plate
Museum number: 1896,0201.90
Description: White Painted III pottery plate; conical profile with two strap horizontal handles (one missing); wheel-made; buff clay decorated with matt, dark brown paint: inside, band of paint around the rim and broad and narrow bands in centre, random blob of paint between rim and centre; underside with concentric bands around base framing intersecting triangles and row of lozenge flanked by ladders, intersecting triangles and herring-bone patterns on outer side; paint on surviving handle; rim chipped in three places.
Cultures/periods: Cypro-Geometric III
Production date: 900BC-750BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Turner Bequest Excavations, Curium
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Episkopi-Bamboula, 'Site D', tomb 56
Materials: pottery
Ware: White Painted Ware
Type series: White Painted III
Technique: painted; wheel-made
Dimensions: Diameter: 14 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (C731); SCE IV/2 / The Swedish Cyprus Expedition. Vol. IV. Part 2. The Cypro-Geometric, Cypro-Archaic and Cypro-Classical periods. (Fig. xviii,3); Murray, Smith and Walters 1900 / Excavations in Cyprus (p. 80, Tomb 56 no. 2. p. 74 & fig. 129) (described as a bowl in text); Kiely 2011a / Kourion (56.1)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name: From: Turner Bequest Excavations, Curium
Funder name: Funded by: Emma Tourner Turner (bequest)
Acquisition date: 1896
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1896,0201.90

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