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White Painted Rhyton, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot, White Painted VI
White Painted Rhyton, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot, White Painted VI, c. 1650–1450 BC. British Museum, 1897,0401.1313.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age I

White Painted Rhyton

Pottery White Painted VI rhyton in form of quadruped; hand-made; head forms spout; handle and neck lost from back; buff slip; decorated with bands and zig-zags. Dimensions: Height: 9.50 centimetres; Length: 10.90 centimetres; Width: 3.90 centimetres Object Type: rhyton Ware: White Painted Ware Series: White Painted VI Techniques: painted; slipped; handmade

Classification

Object type
Terracotta figure-vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Bronze Age)White Painted VI (Bronze Age)
Shape
Special and ritual vesselsRhyton
Decoration
Painted
Motifs
Bands and lines, Zigzags and chevrons
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)Late Cypriot I
Date
1650 - 1450 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Enkomi

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Enkomi

Identifiers

Accession no.
1897,0401.1313, British Museum · Museum record

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