jar

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Object Type
Museum number: 1933,0613.3
Description: Pottery jar in White Painted V ware; handmade; globular-biconical body with wide neck and everted rim; the bowl is pierced, possibly for suspension, at each side at the junction of the body and the neck; very fine, well levigated clay with buff-cream slip decorated in black paint: outside, on the shoulder, a frieze of hatched triangles with groups of dots in between, framed by parallel bands on bottom and a 'swag' within parallel lines below the rim; bands of vertical parallel lines at regular intervals hang below this register and meet underneath the bowl; on the interior, a frieze of 'swags' framed by vertical parallel lines.
Cultures/periods: Middle Cypriot III (?); Late Cypriot I (LCIA ?)
Production date: 1750BC-1550BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Materials
Ware
Type series
Technique: painted; handmade; slipped
Dimensions: Height: 6 centimetres
Curator's comments: SCE IV/1B, p. 68, Type IV(a) for further examples.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Acquisition notes: Found unregistered, probably acquired c. 1910.
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1933,0613.3

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