Jar
About this object
History of use
For storing liquids.
Narrative
Cypro-Geometric III.
Cultural context
funerary gift
Physical description
Small yellow-buff jar (amphoriskos) with two handles. The jar is made of very fine-grained light clay, hard-fired with a few small dark grits and white limestone particles. The broad body sits on a ring foot with a short pedestal. The shoulders slope in sharply to a short wide cylinder-shaped neck and a wide mouth with flat, slightly everted rim. The two flattened strap handles are attached to rim and shoulders. The designs are brown-black matt paint mottled in the interior to a dark red-brown. Decoration consists of six thin concentric lines on lower half of body and a broad band around bottom. There are two narrow bands on neck and three on flattened top surface of rim. The foot, handles and inside of neck are solid brown.
Date Made
850 B.C.E.-725 B.C.E.
Date Acquired
Jun 1957
How Acquired
Donated
Credit Line
Measurements
Overall: 11 cm x 7 cm
Object Number
M1.56