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Red Polished Horned Jar, Early Bronze Age III Cypriot, Red Polished III
Red Polished Horned Jar, Early Bronze Age III Cypriot, Red Polished III, c. 2100–1800 BC. British Museum, 1937,1118.1.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Early Bronze Age III

Red Polished Horned Jar

Pottery amphora or jar in Red Polished III ware; hand-made; ovoid body on a rounded base; tall concave neck with a slightly everted plain rim; pair of opposing horned lug handles, pierced with large holes; made of pink-buff clay with a lustrous red slip, decorated with lime-filled incision: vertical bands and zig-zags. Dimensions: Height: 22 centimetres Object Type: jar Ware: Red Polished Ware (RP III) Techniques: incised; polished; handmade

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Red Polished wareRed Polished III
Shape
Jar
Decoration techniques
Incised, IncisedIncised and white-filled
Motifs
Zigzags and chevrons, Bands and lines
Material
Clay
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Kalavasos-Village
Date
2100 - 1800 BC

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Kalavasos

Identifiers

Accession no.
1937,1118.1, British Museum · Museum record

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