krater

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Object Type
Museum number: 1899,1229.128
Description: Pottery: wheel-made bell krater of Furumark type FS 281 with ring base and round handles attached vertically at the side; buff clay with buff polished slip decorated with dark brown lustrous paint; rim is painted with one encircling ring below and three encircling rings around the widest part; within the panel, on each side, there are two antithetic birds around a checkerboard and two sea anenome motifs; part of the krater has been reconstructed.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1300BC-1200BC
Production place: Made in: Greece
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: The British Museum; Excavated by: Francis Bertram Welch; Excavated by: Percy Christian
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Klavdia, Uncertain tomb
Materials
Type series
Technique: wheel-made; slipped; painted
Dimensions: Diameter: 29.80 centimetres (rim); Height: 30.70 centimetres
Curator's comments: Malmgren erroneously attributed this vessel to Tomb 10. Neither the original Register nor Walters' Catalogue provides any information on the original tomb number.
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (C400); Malmgren 2003 / Klavdhia-Tremithos. A Middle and Late Cypriote Bronze Age site. (no. 88, p. 48); MPVP / Mycenaean Pictorial Vase Painting (V.115); SCE IV/1C / The Swedish Cyprus Expedition vol. IV. Part IC. The Late Cypriot Bronze Age. Architecture and pottery (p. 369, Type 291 a2); Furumark 1941 / The Mycenaean Pottery. Analysis and Classification. (FS 281:31); Kiely 2011d / Klavdia-Tremithos: A Bronze Age community in south-east Cyprus (U.53)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition date: 1899
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1899,1229.128

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