Object photograph·C00161·1927–1931

Pottery White Painted I Jug, askos (L.406.7)

White Painted I jug, askos, from the Kastros tombs at Lapithos, with an animal-head spout and painted diamond lattice bands — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00161. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A jug with a spout formed as a head with a long snout and an eye, rising from the right side of a rounded body. A loop handle joins the body to the head, and a small upright spout with a flared rim rises on the left. The body has bands of dark painted diamond lattice on a light ground above a low pedestal foot, shown against a plain background.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Pottery White Painted I Jug, L.406.7.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Pottery White Painted I Jug. L.406.7.

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