Object photograph·C01882·1927–1931

Pottery Red Figured Ware (M.36.3)

Pottery Red Figured Ware vessel with a single strap handle, photographed from the front with its mouth facing the camera — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01882. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A squat, rounded vessel with a tall vertical strap handle rising from the shoulder and a broad ring-shaped mouth at the front. The glossy dark surface carries paler figural decoration of animal or human forms in several places, partly worn. The vessel stands on a light backdrop with a handwritten label along the bottom edge of the card.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Pottery Red Figured Ware. M.36.3. S

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Pottery Red Figured Ware. M.36.3. S

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