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)

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THE POTTERY OF CYPRUS.

C 14. CUP. Ht. 3 in. Similarly acquired.

Very roughly modelled ; coarse red clay with slip. Body globular, with
rim curving inwards and rounded base ; loop-handle (broken) and tubular
spout.

C 15. BOWL. Form 83. Ht. 2j in. ; diam. 4J in. From Agia Paraskevi, Nicosia. Presented

by Col. Falkland Warren, R.A., 1888.

Hemispherical, flattened at base. Red clay and slip ; carefully modelled
except rim, which is left rough.

C 16. OINOCHOE. Form 95 (nearly ; cf. C 11). Ht. 8| in. From excavations at Enkomi

(Turner Bequest), 1896 ; tomb 83.

Red clay and slip, the latter varying in tone and quality. Trefoil lip and
flat handle ; no base-ring ; well modelled.

C 17. FLASK. Ht. 3' in. From excavations at Klavdia, near Larnaka, 1899 ; tomb 21. Plate '

Globular body ; short cylindrical neck with lip and small ring-handle at
base. Light red clay with deep red slip, discoloured by fire.

1. (b) Technique more advanced (C 18-34).

Q 18. FUNNEL. Form 4 with stem. Ht. to top of handle, 7 in. ; diam. 5f in. Phoenikiais Plate j

(O.-Richter), 1884.

Part of lip opposite handle restored. Hand-made ; red clay ; surface rough,
hardly polished. In form of flattened hemisphere (as C21 ff.) on narrow stem ;
at the top of the handle, a V-shaped depression.

q \q CUP. Ht. with handle, 6| in.; diam. 3jin. From Agia Paraskevi,

Nicosia. Presented by Col. Falkland Warren, R.A., 1888. J.H.S.,
XVII., p. 71.

Technique somewhat improving, but still without foot
or base ; black patches on surface, as C 3 ; surface covered
with a slip and burnished. Body nearly globular, with high
arching handle ; on the side opposite to the handle, slightly
below the lip, is a rudimentary handle formed by a projection
pierced horizontally (a " string-hole ").

[Cf. Cyprus Mus. Cat., p. 44, Nos. 140-145, 147.]

Fig. 6 = c :

C 20. BOWL. Form 2. Ht. lj in. ; diam. 3^ in. Similarly acquired. J.H.S., XVII., p. 71.

Hand-made ; clay of lighter colour ; surface burnished. Form hemispherical,
slightly flattened at base to allow of its standing upright; on the lip has been a
handle (now partly broken away) formed of a flat strip of clay pinched outward
and upward, pierced horizontally.

[Cf. Cyprus Mus. Cat., Nos. 1-4.]