Object photograph·C00396·1927–1931

Pottery Black-on-Red I-III (L.410.4)

Painted pottery vessel with three handles and black bands, from the Kastros tombs at Lapithos — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00396. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A round-bodied vessel with a tall neck and a broken rim at the top. A large loop handle rises from the shoulder to the rim, and a smaller handle sits on each side of the body. Black horizontal bands with fine lines run around the body, with spiral motifs and diagonal lines between them, and the vessel stands on a ring base against a plain grey backdrop.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Pottery Black-on-Red I-III. L.410.4. The object is probably to be found at the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Pottery Black-on-Red I-III. L.410.4. Föremålet finns antagligen på Cyprus muset i Nicosia.

Type: Object photograph
Number: C00396
Date: 1927–1931 (not dated individually: the span of the collection)
Find context: 1927–28 (Lapithos, Kastros (necropolis, Tombs 401-429): 18 November to 10 December 1927, and 14 March to early April 1928)
Site: Lapithos
Excavation: Lapithos: the Swedish Cyprus Expedition
Tomb: Lapithos-Kastros, SCE Tomb 410
Object now at: Cyprus Museum
Object illustrated in: The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Finds and Results of the Excavations in Cyprus 1927-1931, Vol. I (text), Pl. XLVII.5 (probably)
Holder's label: Pottery Black-on-Red I-III. L.410.4. The object can probably be found at the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia.
Materials: glass negative, black-and-white print
Keywords: pot, pattern
Held by: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm
Licence: Public domain (CC0) (our English text: CC BY 4.0)

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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)