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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, curving 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 beneath a narrower black band; the belly is decorated on both sides with 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. Place of origin: Cyprus. Type: vessel., The image shows a rounded ceramic vessel with a narrow neck and flared rim, photographed against a plain light gray background. The vessel surface is primarily beige with visible texture and some small pits, and it features several vertical dark brown stripes running down the body as well as a dark brown band around the rim. The rim area also shows a reddish-brown region above the dark band. The vessel has two small protrusions on opposite sides near its widest point and exhibits areas of wear and surface scratches.

Crédit

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Notre référence

LZT26A00_496

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

61.6Mo (1.2Mo) / 32.7cm x 47.2cm / 3862 x 5573 (300dpi)

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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 curving 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 beneath narrower black band belly decorated sides two groups three concentric black- -brown lines varying widths spacing outer line groups wider Protruding points black- -brown Date 850–700 Bc Place origin Cyprus Type vessel image rounded ceramic vessel narrow neck flared rim photographed plain light gray background vessel surface primarily beige visible texture small pits features several vertical dark brown stripes running down well dark brown band rim rim area also reddish-brown region dark band two small protrusions opposite sides near widest point exhibits areas wear surface scratches.