Pithos
Sherd
54-28-7
From: Cyprus | Kourion | Bamboula
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 54-28-7 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Cypriot |
| Provenience | Cyprus | Kourion | Bamboula |
| Site Name | Kourion |
| Locus | Near D, surface find |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Fragment from wall of pithos. wheelmade? Impressed with bull-fighting scene. Decoration impressed from a seal. Two registers. Above, legs of a bull, feet of two men. Below, left to right, hind leg of bull; two men, semi-crouched; two bulls, horns interlocked, the left complete. Coarse clay with white grits, grey at core, surfaces fired orange-buff. |
| Height | 5.9 cm |
| Width | 11.9 cm |
| Thickness | 3.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Cyprus Expedition, George H. McFadden, 1954 |
| Other Number | SH720 - Field No SF |
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