amphora

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Object Type
Museum number: 1982,0729.313
Description: Pottery amphora in White Painted ware; wheel-made; globular-biconical body on a high, splaying foot (concave underneath); wider cylindrical neck, slightly conical in profile, with a flat, everted rim (chipped); ridge at junction of body and neck; opposing strap handles from shoulder to rim, arching outwards; orange-buff clay with a cream slip (much eroded), decorated in black paint rather poorly executed and also much eroded in places: a single band around the junction of body and neck with on and below two below the inside of the rim, solid foot, ladder pattern on the handles, short strokes on the rim.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 900BC-750BC (circa)
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum; Excavated by: George Gordon Hake
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Kourion
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; wheel-made; slipped
Dimensions: Height: 13.30 centimetres
Curator's comments: The number '198' in blue pencil seems to refer to the original find context. See Bailey, Op. Ath. VI (1965), pp. 5-13 for details of the Hake-Kitchener excavations.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1982
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1982,0729.313
Additional IDs: Previous owner/ex-collection number: 328-1883 (V&A number)

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