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Object photograph·C09905·1927–1931

Pottery White Painted II bowl (17946:7,5)

White Painted II pottery bowl on a high foot, with two handles and dark painted bands and lattice motifs.
Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C09905. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A pottery bowl with a wide, rounded body, two small lug handles at the rim and a tall, flaring foot. The exterior is decorated with dark painted bands and a large diamond panel filled with cross-hatching, flanked by vertical stripes and diagonal lines. The photograph shows the bowl alone against a plain light background, with some chips and cracks visible on the rim and body.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Two White Painted II vessels: a small bowl and a footed bowl with painted diamond and diagonal panels, shown side by side.
Description, scan 2
Two pottery vessels stand side by side on a plain light background. The larger one on the right is a footed bowl with two small handles, a wide body and a short pedestal foot, with dark painted bands and framed panels of diagonal strokes and a cross-hatched diamond. The smaller bowl on the left has two small handles and broad dark bands below the rim and lower on the body.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Stat. Hist. Mus. Inv. No. 17 949. 17946:7,5. Pottery White Painted II, SI.Hist.Mus.17946;5. Bowl and footed bowl.

Swedish, as on the record

Stat. Hist. Mus. Inv. No. 17 949. 17946:7,5