Sh 727B 1738 1239Foreign painted wareCyprus bichrome (?)HandmadeClay gray to reddish brown, gritty with occasional largeparticles. Surface a darkish red brown, pocked. Paintmatt purple-blackPreserved is fragment of neck ridge and shoulderof a large jug (?); Neck ridge borders above and belowby a stripe. On shoulder part of metope (?) design,one vertical stroke and 3 tangent oblique strokes probablyone half of an inverted chevron pattern8.8 cm × 6.3 cmat least to same type of potBelongs to same pot as, though not joining, Sh 88 and 287
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above”jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain
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