Bamboula “A Tomb of the Early Classical Period” Benson (photos)

(Type 1) and also to Aphendrika Type 2, which nevertheless has a much more pronounced shoulder.14 The Atlit Type occurs at least as early as the XXIInd Dynasty.15

Painted Jugs: 3, 18

This type is known in hitherto published examples from Cyprus only at Amathus:

Br. Mus. C945 CVA Br.Mus. 2 IICc Pl.19:21 Br. Mus. C944 CVA Br.Mus. 2 IICe Pl 19:22 Br. Mus. inv. 94,11-1,102 CVA Br.Mus. 2 IICc Pl.17:3 Cyprus Museum 1014-15 Also 1016 which has no provenience.

Six examples appear in Cyprus Museum Photograph No.317 (1926) which probably include 1014-16 published by J.L.Myres and M.Richter, Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum (Oxford 1899).

Contexts of tombs from which these specimens came dated them to the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.16 For this reason, presumably, the first three vases listed above were classified as Plain White VI by the Swedish Cyprus Expedition.17 The occurrence of this type exclusively at or near Amathus would lead one to look to Palestine for its inspiration. In fact, Palestinian origin of the shape is suggested by the existence of an almost exact duplicate of the Bamboula jugs in Tomb 662 at Beth-pelet, dated to the XXVth Dynasty.18 This is not a common shape in Palestine, as far as I can tell.19 A very closely related vase-form occurs in the Corinthian repertory.20 It may be possible to explain the Corinthian type entirely as a rather unusual variation of the Middle Corinthian aryballos. On the other hand, the similarity of the Palestinian and Corinthian types is so striking that the possibility of the former having influenced the latter may not be excluded. Although there