Walters, Henry Beauchamp; British Museum <London> [Hrsg.]: Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (Band 1,2): Cypriote, Italian, and Etruscan pottery (London, 1912)

THE POTTERY OF CYPRUS.

C 1-1040.

I. THE BRONZE AGE WARES. (C1-330).

A. PRE-MYCENAEAN (01-105).

1. PRIMITIVE POTTERY, UNORNAMENTED (0 1-34).
(Cf. Cyprus Mus. Cat. I. I. a).

C 1-34. Unpainted red ware ; surface sometimes blackened by smoke.
Bowls, bottles, cooking-pots (often on three feet), composite and fantastic forms.
C 8 has an incipient accidental base-ring, and shows how this innovation
might have been suggested. The hook-handle of C 9 suggests a metal
origin. The rapid development of technique in the successive groups (C I—17,
C 18-34, C 35-58, and C 59-85) should be noted. See Cyprus Mus. Cat., p. 36.



(a) Earlier and ruder varieties (C 1-17).

Ol. MILK-BOWL. Ht. 9i in.; diam. 21 in. From Phoenikiais, Dali ; excavated by

M. Ohnefalsch-Richter, 1884.

Nearly conical but slightly flattened
at base. Hand-made, but technique fairly
good ; dark red clay, the surface covered
with slip which has been slightly burnished.
The principal handle consists of a curved
projection slightly below the lip, fiat on the
upper surface, convex below, pierced verti-
cally with two large holes ; between them
is a strengthening piece raised to the level of the lip with a slight circular
depression, suggesting a finger-print, in the centre. The side of the bowl is
pierced at points slightly lower than, and corresponding to, the holes in the
projection. Opposite is a similar projection, oblong but unpierced, decorated
on upper surface with a row of deep incised grooves. Midway between these
on each side are two small projections pinched out on the level of the lip,
grooved.

[Cf. A then. Mitt., XL, p. 230, Beilage 2, fig. 3.]

Fig. 1