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White Painted Cup, Geometric II Cypriot
White Painted Cup, Geometric II Cypriot, c. 900–700 BC. British Museum, 1982,0729.385.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Geometric II

White Painted Cup

Pottery cup in White Painted ware; wheel-made; deep body with straight sides and a carinated lower body; splaying conical foot; pair of opposing loop handles; buff clay and cream slip, painted with black banded decoration. Dimensions: Diameter: 16.60 centimetres Object Type: cup Ware: White Painted Ware (WP III) Techniques: painted; wheel-made

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Iron Age)
Shape
Cup
Decoration
Painted
Motif
Bands and lines
Material
Clay
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Kourion
Date
900 - 700 BC

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Kourion

Identifiers

Accession no.
1982,0729.385, British Museum · Museum record

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