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Object Type
Museum number: 1919,0712.1
Description: Pottery gourd jug in Red Polished III ware; handmade; piriform body with round base and long, narrow cylindrical neck with funnel mouth; one vertical round handle from mid-neck to shoulder opposite a horizontal handle; small pierced vertical projection at the front at the shoulder; incised decoration with white infill including bands of hatched lozenges; orange clay with dark red slip; repaired.
Cultures/periods: Early Cypriot III; Middle Cypriot I
Production date: 2100BC-1800BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Cyprus
Materials
Ware
Type series: Stewart Type (I B3 f4 variety a); Red Polished III
Technique: handmade; incised; slipped; polished
Dimensions: Height: 27 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Stewart CCAEBA / Corpus of Cypriot artefacts of the Early Bronze Age (Part I, p. 118. I B3 f4 variety a, no. 2); CVA British Museum 1 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 1, British Museum 1 (pl. 4,3)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1919
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1919,0712.1

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