Object photograph·C02557·1927–1931

Pottery Red Figured Ware (M.44.23)

Dark-surfaced vessel with a strap handle and pale painted figures, mouth facing the camera — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C02557. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A round-bodied vessel with a tall strap handle rising to the rim, its mouth facing the camera in the foreground. The dark surface carries pale painted figures with hatched and dotted markings on either side of the handle, and some paint is worn, with a crack across the mouth ring. The vessel stands on a plain light background.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Pottery Red Figured Ware, M.44.23.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Pottery Red Figured Ware. M.44.23.

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