Object photograph·C05440·1927–1931

Pottery Levanto-Helladic Ware Amphora-Crater. Lev. Hell (E.3.257)

Levanto-Helladic Ware amphora-crater from Enkomi, with painted horizontal bands and a vertical handle — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C05440. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A large pottery vessel with a wide flaring mouth, a tall vertical handle rising above the rim, and a broad rounded body. Dark horizontal bands run around the body, and the upper shoulder carries a painted motif of curving lines and loops on either side of the handle. The vessel is set on a draped fabric backdrop, propped on two wooden blocks, with cracks and restoration lines visible across its surface.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Pottery Levanto-Helladic Ware Amphora-Crater. Lev. Hell, E.3.257.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Pottery Levanto-Helladic Ware Amphora-Crater. Lev. Hell E.3.257.

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