Material Family
Clay
Also called terracotta, ceramic, earthenware, pottery
- Objects
- 4,678
In the Compendium
The Pottery of Ancient Cyprus
The pottery made and used in Cyprus from the Ceramic Neolithic onward, the island's most abundant artifact class and the basis of its chronology.
Across the catalogue
Object types
Wares
Styles
Decoration techniques
Motifs
Periods
Places of production
Findspots
- Amathus168
- Enkomi166
- Kourion154
- Idalion117
- Bellapais-Vounous109
- Salamis80
- Nicosia-Ayia Paraskevi76
- Kalopsidha73
Collections
- The British Museum Collection1,486
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art1,030
- The Ashmolean Museum524
- Larnaca Museum276
- The Cyprus Museum, Jacksonville264
- Cyprus Museum, Nicosia215
- Royal Ontario Museum182
- Pierides Museum, Larnaca150
Objects
1–48 of 4,678
'Astarte Terracotta Figure'
Archaic II
'Hadra' Hydria originally used as a cinerary urn
Hellenistic
'Hadra' Hydria used as a cinerary urn
Hellenistic
'Hadra' Hydria used as a cinerary urn
"Base Ring Bowl"
Late Bronze Age I
"Bichrome IV-V Trefoil Jug"
Archaic
"Bichrome Ware Bullseye Jug"
Archaic I
"Bichrome Wheelmade Jug"
Late Bronze Age I
"Black Painted Female Figurine"
Late Bronze Age II
"Black Slip Bichrome Flask"
Archaic
"Dea Gravida Terracotta Figure"
Archaic II
"Kalathos Female Figure"
Geometric II
"Kalathos Female Figure"
Archaic II
"Pastoral Style Krater"
Late Bronze Age II
"Plain White Bowl"
Archaic II
"Plain White Bowl"
Archaic II
"Plain White Dish"
Archaic
"Plain White Jug"
Classical
"Plain White Oinochoe"
Archaic II
"Proto-White Painted Stirrup Jar"
Late Bronze Age III
"Purple Brown Painted Bowl"
Late Bronze Age III
"Ram Figurine"
Archaic I
"Red and Black Bands Jug"
Archaic I
"Red Slip Grooved Vessel"
Geometric
"Red Slip II Biconical Jug"
Archaic I
"Shovel" of Plain White ware
Classical
"Terracotta Breast Goddess"
Archaic II
"Terracotta Breast-Holding Figurine"
Archaic II
"Terracotta Duck Figurine"
Archaic II
"Terracotta Votary Figure"
Archaic I
"White Painted Bird Askos"
Late Bronze Age I
"White Painted Cup"
Geometric
"White Painted Cup"
Geometric
"White Painted Dish"
Geometric I
"White Painted Flask"
Geometric II
"White Painted Krater"
Geometric I
"White Painted Spouted Jug"
Geometric
"White Painted Stirrup Jar"
Late Bronze Age III
"White Painted Vessel"
Geometric I
"White Slip II Bowl"
Late Bronze Age II
"White Slip Tankard"
Late Bronze Age II
"Zoomorphic Rattle"
Late Bronze Age I
3 Terracotta Music Players
Geometric
A Cypriot Bichrome-Ware Oinochoe Jug
Archaic I
Aegean Flask
Late Bronze Age II
Aegean Jar
Middle Bronze Age I
Aegean Jar
Late Bronze Age I
Aegean Jar
Late Bronze Age II