Object photograph·fol. 10r

Painted terracotta jars, jugs and juglets

Five painted vessels with handles and banded decoration, with two smaller vessels lying in front, on a dark cloth. — Photograph: Lawrence-Cesnola album, 1881. Wellcome Collection, London, fol. 10r. Public domain (Public Domain Mark).

Description

Five large painted vessels stand in a loose group against a dark background, with two smaller vessels lying on their sides in the foreground. The tall jars and jugs have wide necks, rounded bodies and bands of geometric and linear patterns around the shoulders and bodies. One small vessel has a handle and a concentric pattern on its base, and the other has crosshatched lines across its body.

English

Painted terracotta jars, jugs and juglets: one of the sixty photographs of finds from Alexander Palma di Cesnola's excavations of 1876–1879 mounted in the album, on fol. 10r.