Amphoroid krater with butterfly and metope decoration, Tomb 1
Object card: 1965. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_1348. "Amphoroid krater with butterfly and metope decoration, Tomb 1". CC BY 4.0. Resized.
Object card
English, translated from the French record
Amphoroid krater of chamois slip and chamois fabric with gravel, incomplete; height preserved 20 cm, mouth diameter 23.8 cm, neck height 11 cm, with two flat handles from rim to shoulder. Black painted decoration in metopes between horizontal lines, with butterflies on the shoulder and, on the neck, petals forming a St Andrew's cross and cross-hatched lozenges; Proto-White Painted ware. Found in Tomb 1, Salamis, Cyprus; inventory V_0306; 1965-04.
French, as on the record
dessin : D_1896
diapositives : C_0526
inv objet : V_0306
negatif : 00120_05
negatif : 00991_06
pub : SAL_PUB_II_P_CAT_02_0052_p_0027
type :Cratère amphoroïde
num planche : PL_20
chantier : Tombe 1
objet : Céramique : Vases fermés
engobe chamois
bouche ronde
lèvre étalée
dim. : h. cons. : 20
deux anses plates du bord à l’épaule. — Décor en métopes entre des lignes horizontales : sur l’épaule, papillons
diam. bouche : 23,8. — Au tour
h. col : 11
peinture noire. — Panse ovoïde ? col concave
pâte chamois avec graviers
sur le col, pétales formant croix de Saint-André, et losanges quadrillés. — Proto-White Painted.
Cratère amphoroïde — Incomplet
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