White Painted Stem Cup

White Painted Stem Cup

Description:

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

Period:

Geometric I

Date:

1050 - 900 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Kourion

Accession Number:

1982,0729.347