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Cypriot gourd jug, Excavated at Nea Paphos Cyprus. Cypriot pottery, Cypriot Bichrome Ware III. Small vessel with a barrel-shaped gourd-shaped body, without a foot, with a spherical bottom. On both shorter sides the center is marked with a small protruding point. A single ring-shaped handle on the longer side, mounted above half the height of the body and at the base of the neck, curved downwards. Quite long neck, strongly flaring, conical spout. Yellow clay with yellow-brownish engobe. Decoration in black-brown and matte red: the spout is decorated externally with a wide matte red band with a narrower black band beneath; the belly has on both sides two groups of three concentric black-and-brown lines of varying widths and spacing, the outer line in the groups on the shorter sides being much wider than the others. Protruding points are marked in black-and-brown. Date: 850–700 BC. Type/place of origin: Cyprus; vessel., A rounded clay vessel with a narrow neck and a flared rim, featuring a single curved handle attached from the shoulder to the neck; the body is beige with visible texture and wear, and it has a concentric circular painted design in dark brown on the rounded side, with additional dark brown bands and rims on the neck and shoulder; the rim shows a reddish-brown color at the top, and the background behind the vessel is a uniform light gray.

Crédit

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Notre référence

LZT26A00_493

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

61.6Mo (1.1Mo) / 32.7cm x 47.2cm / 3862 x 5573 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Cypriot gourd jug Excavated Nea Paphos Cyprus Cypriot pottery Cypriot Bichrome Ware III Small vessel barrel-shaped gourd-shaped body foot spherical bottom shorter sides center marked small protruding point single ring-shaped handle longer side mounted half height body base neck curved downwards Quite long neck strongly flaring conical spout Yellow clay yellow-brownish engobe Decoration black-brown matte red spout decorated externally wide matte red band narrower black band beneath belly sides two groups three concentric black- -brown lines varying widths spacing outer line groups wider Protruding points black- -brown Date 850–700 Bc Type place origin Cyprus vessel rounded clay narrow neck flared rim featuring single curved handle attached shoulder beige visible texture wear concentric circular painted design dark brown rounded side additional dark brown bands rims rim reddish-brown color top background uniform light gray.