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Object Type
Museum number: 1929,1014.4
Description: White Painted ware vessel with human-headed spout; wheel-made with modelled details; conical/mastoid body on a flat base; spout in the form of a human head; string-hole at opposite side; made of fine buff clay decorated with black paint: bands, chevrons and lattice-lozenges.
Cultures/periods: Late Cypriot IIIB; Cypro-Geometric I
Production date: 1100 BC-950 BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Cyprus
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; pierced
Dimensions: Height: 14.50 centimetres
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1929
Acquisition notes: All the items in the registration group GR 1929,1014.1-7 are said to have been previously owned by Alessandro Palma di Cesnola (q.v.), and found in Cyprus. Some are illustrated in his published works which links them directly with the collection he formed in collaboration with Henry Lawrence (q.v.) and it is likely that all of them were in the original Lawrence-Cesnola collection.
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1929,1014.4

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