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Pastoral Style Bell Krater, Late Bronze Age II Cypriot, White Painted Wheelmade III
Pastoral Style Bell Krater, Late Bronze Age II Cypriot, White Painted Wheelmade III, c. 1250–1200 BC. British Museum, 1897,0401.1260.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age II

Pastoral Style Bell Krater

Pottery Pastoral Style bell krater; wheel-made; reddish brown painted decoration of a spotted bull on one side and a pair of antithetic sphinxes flanking a tree on the other, bands above and below; mended from sherds and partially restored. Dimensions: Diameter: 36.60 centimetres; Height: 41 centimetres; Weight: 3 kilograms; Width: 40.50 centimetres Object Type: krater Ware: White Painted Wheel-made Ware Series: Pastoral Style; White Painted Wheel-made III Techniques: wheel-made; painted

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Painted Wheelmade wareWhite Painted Wheelmade III
Shape
KraterBell krater
Style
Pictorial StylePastoral Style
Decoration
Painted
Motifs
Bull and cattle, Sphinx and griffin, Tree and sacred tree
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)
Date
1250 - 1200 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Enkomi

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Enkomi

Identifiers

Accession no.
1897,0401.1260, British Museum · Museum record

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