Amphora
49-12-859
From: Cyprus | Kourion | Kaloriziki
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 49-12-859 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Cyprus | Kourion | Kaloriziki |
| Site Name | Kourion |
| Locus | Tomb 33:6 |
| Period | Cypro-Geometric IA |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | White Painted I |
| Description | Nearly complete and mended. Clay: light gray-green with fine sand, well smoothed. Paint: dark purple-brown. 2 wide bands interior rim. Paint on rim, neck-base, base and foot. On bottom: 8 armed maltese cross. Handle and rim barred. Front: divided into 3 sets of horizontal and vertical panels by triple lines. Middle zones (vertical): horizontal barred band top and bottom, center, single-outlined horizontal latticed band. Left zone (vertical) 3 tiers of inverted solid triangles (top) 6 armed barred cross with vertical wavy line (center) latticed-lozenge and 2 inverted latticed-triangles. Right zone (vertical), 2 zones each per panel: thatching and chevrons (top): latticed lozenges and thaching (center), latticed triangles (a few outlined). A spotted added with extended toung climbs up through the tiers. |
| Height | 18.9 cm |
| Width | 15.3 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 12.1 cm |
| Credit Line | Cyprus Expedition, J. F. Daniel, 1949 |
| Other Number | P678 - Field No SF |
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