Flask

32-27-620

From: Cyprus | Lapithos

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 32-27-620
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cypriot
Provenience Cyprus | Lapithos
Locus Tomb 53B
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Black-on-Red III | Black-on-Red I
Description

Black-on-Red flask; Incomplete; fragmentary; badly rotted and flaking; thin fabric; gray core; much of decoration visible in original photo no longer discernible. Ring base; depressed ovoid body with greatest diameter at shoulder; tall, narrow, straight neck; pinched rim; vertical handle from rim to mid-shoulder. Two painted bands encircling upper neck; shallow, thin, incised lines encircling lower-shoulder;shallow, thin, closelt-set vertical flutes on body; possible traces of paint on handle.

Height 23.1 cm
Outside Diameter 16 cm
Credit Line Cyprus Expedition; B.H. Hill, 1932
Other Number 954 - Field No SF | 13 - Other Number

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