Object photograph·fol. 12r

Painted terracotta jars and jugs with handles

Six painted pottery vessels with handles arranged in two rows against a dark background — Photograph: Lawrence-Cesnola album, 1881. Wellcome Collection, London, fol. 12r. Public domain (Public Domain Mark).

Description

Six pottery vessels stand in two rows against a dark background, four at the back and three in front with one centred. The jars have wide bodies, handles at the shoulder and necks of varying height. Their surfaces carry bands of geometric and linear painted decoration, with lozenges, chevrons and horizontal stripes around the shoulders and bodies. A mounted border frames the photograph on the album page.

English

Painted terracotta jars and jugs with handles: one of the sixty photographs of finds from Alexander Palma di Cesnola's excavations of 1876–1879 mounted in the album, on fol. 12r.