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Red Polished Storage Jar, Early Bronze Age II Cypriot, Red Polished I
Red Polished Storage Jar, Early Bronze Age II Cypriot, Red Polished I, c. 2300–2100 BC. British Museum, 1939,0217.25.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Early Bronze Age II

Red Polished Storage Jar

Pottery Red Polished I storage jar or amphora; hand-made; ovoid body on a raised flat base; tall concave neck and everted rim (mouth missing but partly restored); two opposing handles with rounded sections from shoulder to middle part of neck; made of fairly fine buff clay, some inclusions and added straw grog, covered with a burnished red slip, now very worn. Dimensions: Height: 28 centimetres; Width: 19.20 centimetres max. Object Type: jar Ware: Red Polished Ware Series: Red Polished I-II (north coast) (Stewart type VIIA 2c) Techniques: slipped; handmade; polished

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Red Polished wareRed Polished I
Shape
Jar
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeEarly Cypriot (Early Bronze Age)
Date
2300 - 2100 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Bellapais-Vounous

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Vounous

Identifiers

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1939,0217.25, British Museum · Museum record

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