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Object Type
Museum number: 1899,1229.114
Description: Pottery spherical bottle in White Painted Latticed Diamond Style ware; hand-made; spherical body; long narrow neck with two string-hole handles at neck base; red lattice pattern on buff polished slip.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1850BC-1650BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: The British Museum; Excavated by: Francis Bertram Welch; Excavated by: Percy Christian
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Klavdia, Tomb A15
Materials
Ware
Type series
Technique: painted; polished; handmade
Dimensions: Height: 11.20 centimetres
Curator's comments: According to Åström, some of the WP III-IV (Latticed Diamond Style) wares were made in the same workshops as WP III-V (String-hole style) vase (SCE IV/1B, 32, note 1).
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (C290); SCE IV/1B / The Swedish Cyprus Expedition. Vol. IV/ 1B The Middle Cypriot Bronze Age (IV.A.1.a, p33); Malmgren 2003 / Klavdhia-Tremithos. A Middle and Late Cypriote Bronze Age site. (Cat. no. 9, pp. 27, pl. 3a); Kiely 2011d / Klavdia-Tremithos: A Bronze Age community in south-east Cyprus (A15.1)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition date: 1899
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1899,1229.114

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