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White Painted Stem Cup, Geometric I Cypriot
White Painted Stem Cup, Geometric I Cypriot, c. 1050–900 BC. British Museum, 1982,0729.347.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Geometric I

White Painted Stem Cup

Pottery stemmed cup in White Painted ware; wheel-made; the cup has a carinated bottom and straight, slightly concave sides; single loop handle from the body to the rim; short stem with a splaying, ribbed foot, hollow underneath; buff clay and slip, decorated in matt black-brown paint: bands on the body and rim, inside and out, solid handle, from which hangs a large hook motif; surface is cracked in places and heavily encrusted with a crystalline deposit. Dimensions: Height: 13.30 centimetres Object Type: cup Ware: White Painted Ware (WP I-II) Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Iron Age)
Shape
Cup
Decoration
Painted
Material
Clay
Period
probablyIron AgeCypro-Geometric
Date
1050 - 900 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Kourion

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Kourion

Identifiers

Accession no.
1982,0729.347, British Museum · Museum record

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