Enkomi 1969 Inventory continued (III)H. de Contenson

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20.230	Incised sign on fired clay. Shallow incisions
(continued)	with serrated edges. A horizontal bar
	cut on the left by a vertical bar and
	met from above by two vertical bars
	slightly longer than half of the first.
	The handle, of vertical loop form, belongs
	no doubt to a small closed three-handled hydria
	handles, Mycenaean III B.
	H. of sherd: 5,9 cm; width: 2,9 cm
	H. of handle: 2,6; distance between the outside of the
	attachments: 4,35; section: 1,6 × 0,5
	Height of sign: 1,3; width: 0,95 cm

20.231	Top of a Mycenaean three-handled hydria.	T. 1907
	Light pinkish brown fired clay,	(sub-street no. 2)
	fine, hard, ringing. Slip (drawing)	Dromos.
	chamois, lustrous on the outside.
	Glossy red-brown paint. Surface with a few spalled holes.
	Shape and decoration as Schaeffer, E-A I, fig. 49, no. 7
	(tomb 5) but neck slightly narrower and shoulder more
	horizontal.
	Fairly clear finger impressions on the inside

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