Walters, Henry Beauchamp; British Museum <London> [Editor]: 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.



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lug. 8 = C 36

C 36. AMPHORA. Form 8 (nearly. Ht. 6# in. Phoenikiais (O.-Richter), 1884.

Careful technique ; deep red colour ; has been subjected to heat which has
partly destroyed and shattered the surface. The body is
straight-sided with rounded base; wide neck without lip;
small thick handles on shoulder, sharply pointed above.

Raised decoration : on neck and body, four horizontal %^^lt^i
bands of cable pattern ; in the centre between each pair, a
raised ring. On the level of the handles and also round
the upper part of the body is engraved a zigzag ; and down
each handle runs a line terminating below in a zigzag, both
engraved.

C 37. AMPHORA. Ht. 7-J in. From Ag1a Paraskevi, Nicosia.

Presented by Col. Falkland Warren, R.A., 18SS. /M.S., XVII.,
p. 71.

Good technique ; deep red even tone, but one side
black from bad firing ; surface burnished. Body in form
of oblate spheroid ; straight neck with lip, and arched
handles of two ribs on shoulder; base not flattened.

Ornament in relief: round the body and neck, sets
of two or three plain lines alternating with pairs of
zigzags ; on upper surface of lip and handles, a zigzag ;
within each handle runs a pair of straight lines verti-
cally from neck to base, and a group of three from each
insertion of the handles-downwards.

[Cf. Cyprus Mus. Cat., p. 45, No. 206.]

C 38. ARYBALLOS. Form 5 (nearly). Ht. 5- in. 1S68 (Pierides).

Careful technique ; reddish-drab clay with deep red
slip, which tends to flake off. Body in form of oblate
spheroid with rounded base ; narrow neck with projection
at base and funnel-shaped mouth ; ring-handle with two
projecting pieces on top and handle-ridge.

Ornament in relief: on the shoulder two plain bands ;
above and below, a band of tangent-circles suggesting cable-
pattern.

C 39. JUG. Ht. 4-"-in. Phoenikiais (O.-Richter), 1884.

Drab clay covered with dull greyish-black slip, both
outside and halfway down inside, which tends to flake away;
carefully modelled, but not on the wheel. Body squat, with
wide neck and plain rim ; handle looped in the form of a
C. At the base of the neck opposite the handle, and
immediately below the lower insertion of the handle, arc
projecting string-holes, pierced horizontally ; modelled lip.

9 = c 37.

Fig.

C38.