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

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the other two. It is also of finer execution. This type is not at all common in Cyprus; the only really similar example occurs in Tomb 23 (No.19) at Marion.27 This is classified as Plain White VI but expressly placed by the excavators at the beginning of Cypro-Classic I. Nos. 10 and 11 are fairly well isolated among published examples from both Cyprus and Palestine.28

Coarse ware jug with one handle: 17

Although the one-handled coarse jug with tall neck is common, this particular version of it is less so. A very similar example occurs in an unpublished tomb at the site of Kalorizki, near Episkopi, in a Cypro-Archaic I context (Tomb 18). No.17 is similar to and undoubtedly the ancestor of a jug from a Vouni tomb which had primarily Plain White VI-VII wares.29 The lines of No.17 are rather more taut and severe than those of the Vouni jug.

Bichrome Red spherical jug: 27

This specimen is comparable to SCE IV, Fig.LIV:1 (Bichrome Red II ware).

(Note that this jug occurred in the tomb adjacent to Tomb 4).

Plain White pinched lamps with round bottom: 13, 15, 25, 29

These belong to Gjerstad's Type 3.30 This, however, is a rather inclusive group with no internal relative chronology. Probably there is no clear progression of shape.31 It may be remarked also that Cypriote tombs dating before the Cypro-Classic period have yielded only one or two examples apiece of Type 3 lamps.32

Heavy trefoil lamp with flat bottom: 24

This lamp clearly belongs to another tradition than the Plain White lamps.