Red Polished Stag Vessel, Middle Bronze Age I Cypriot complex vessel

Middle Bronze Age I

Red Polished Stag Vessel

Animal-shaped vessel in Red Polished ware, possibly representing a stag; hand-made; large barrel-shaped body on four legs with circular section; the toes on the one surviving foot are show as three parallel incisions; short stumpy tail, the end of which is broken away; at the front end are a pair of cutaway spouts with a double-pierced string-hole at the top of each; two small bosses on the front of each spout; at the base of the spouts the mouth and head of the animal is shown, proportionately much smaller than the body; two intertwining handles from the front of the body to the base of the spouts (the base of one is broken) Made of coarse, heavy buff clay with a drab polished slip; the body of the vase is decorated with parallel and zig-zag incisions; relief bands around the body and front; surface cracked and worn away in places. Dimensions: Height: 30 centimetres; Length: 23 centimetres Object Type: vessel Ware: Red Polished Ware (RP IV) Techniques: handmade; slipped; polished

Classification

Object type: Terracotta figure-vessel
Ware: Red Polished ware
Shape: Special and ritual vesselsZoomorphic vessel
Decoration: Incised
Motif: Goat, deer and ibex
Material: Clay
Place of production: Cyprus
Findspot: Arpera-Chiflik
Date: 2000 - 1800 BC

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Accession No.

1925,1101.2

Collection

Provenance

Arpera (?)

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