Object photograph·C04715a·1927–1931

Pottery Black Slip Bichrome (A.14.20)

Pottery Black Slip Bichrome vessel with radiating bands and checkerboard panels, with loop handles, from Amathus tombs — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C04715a. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A round vessel with a loop handle on top and a second loop at the base, supported on white cloth against a plain grey backdrop. The flat upper face carries concentric rings at the centre with radiating bands and checkerboard panels in dark paint on a pale surface. The body is dark and smooth with some surface speckling, and a hairline crack runs along the rim.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Pottery Black Slip Bichrome, A.14.20.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Pottery Black Slip Bichrome. A.14.20.

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