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Bottle

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Bottle

Objects: 174

A closed vessel with a narrow neck and no handle, or only vestigial lugs.

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Bottles

A narrow-necked closed vessel with no handle or with two, made in Cyprus from the Early Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period, mostly as a small container for liquids.

Within Bottle

Spindle bottle10
Unguentarium61
Alabastron30

Across the catalogue

Wares

White Painted IV (Bronze Age)8
White Painted ware (Bronze Age)8
Red Lustrous Wheelmade ware7
Black Polished ware6
Red Polished ware5
Red Polished Black-Topped3
Base Ring I2
Red Polished I2

Periods

Roman62
Middle Cypriot (Middle Bronze Age)21
Late Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)12
Cypro-Classical11
Early Cypriot (Early Bronze Age)10
Hellenistic8
Late Cypriot III3
Cypro-Archaic2

Styles

Pendent Line Style3
String-hole Style3
Latticed Diamond Style2
Cross Line Style1

Decoration techniques

Painted21
Incised18
Incised and white-filled11
Impressed and punctured3
Undecorated3
Carved1
Modelled figures and attachments1
Relief and applied1

Motifs

Bands and lines12
Zigzags and chevrons9
Lattice and checkerboard5
Wavy lines5
Triangles and lozenges3
Concentric circles2
Dots and dot rows1
Human figure1

Places of production

Cyprus97
Levant12

Findspots

Idalion5
Amathus3
Bellapais-Vounous3
Alambra2
Klavdhia-Tremithos2
Maroni2
Nicosia-Ayia Paraskevi2
Enkomi1

Object types

Pottery vessel77
Glass vessel65
Stone vessel32

Materials

Clay77
Glass65
Calcite (alabaster)30
Limestone1
Semi-precious stone1

Collections

Royal Ontario Museum64
The Metropolitan Museum of Art42
The British Museum Collection28
Hunterian Museum9
The Cyprus Museum, Jacksonville9
The Ashmolean Museum7
Alexis Drakopoulos4
Archeological Museum, Kourion3

Objects

1–48 of 174

Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Classical
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Classical
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Classical
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Archaic II
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Archaic II
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Classical
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Archaic II
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Classical
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Archaic II
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Archaic II
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Classical
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Classical
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Archaic II
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Classical
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Classical
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Archaic II
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Classical
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Archaic II
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Archaic II
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Archaic II
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Archaic II
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Classical
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Classical
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Archaic II
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Classical
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Classical
Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)
Classical
Alabaster inscribed "alabastron"
Classical
Alabaster pointed alabastron
Late Bronze Age II
Alabaster unguentarium
Hellenistic
Base Ring Spindle Bottle
Late Bronze Age I
Base Ring Ware Spindle Bottle
Late Bronze Age I
Black Polished Bottle
Early Bronze Age II
Black Polished Miniature Bottle
Middle Bronze Age I
Black Polished Miniature Bottle
Middle Bronze Age I
Black Polished Miniature Bottle
Middle Bronze Age I
Black Slip II Bottle
Middle Bronze Age II
Black Slip III Bottle
Middle Bronze Age III
bottle
Middle Bronze Age III
bottle
Late Bronze Age II
bottle
Archaic
bottle
Middle Bronze Age III
bottle
Late Bronze Age II
Bottle
Classical
Bottle
Late Bronze Age III
Bottle
Late Bronze Age II
Bottle
Late Bronze Age II
Bottle
Roman