Bowl

MS5683

From: Cyprus | Kafizin

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS5683
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cypriot
Provenience Cyprus | Kafizin
Date Made 1st Century BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Inscribed
Iconography Greek Inscription
Description

Inscribed 2 handled coarse bowl ring foot, broadly open bowl, slightly outturned rim. A loop handle, circular in section, is set at right angles to wall just below lip on each side. Dark buff clay. Only one fragment, of rim and upper wall missing: restored in plaster. Two inscriptions impressed while clay was moist: one in two lines encircling foot on lower wall; the other in one line with a small part of a second encircling upper wall of interior.

Height 8.3 cm
Outside Diameter 22 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Nicholas Christofi, 1923
Other Number KAF28 - Field No SF

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