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.

2. ORDINARY "MYCENAEAN" TECHNIQUE (C 333-694).

KRATERS WITH NECKS, OR AMPHORAE (C 333 390).
[All of Form 47 except Nos. 385, 3S6, 390.]

C 333 KRATER. Ht. 16^ in. From excavations at Enkomi (Turner Bequest), 1S96 ; tomb 45.

Buff slip ; dark brown paint, thinning to yellow. Repaired and restored.
Paint on neck, handles, and foot. Round rim, pattern of curved lines ; below
design, broad bands.

Round the bod}', a frieze of figures: (1) Four men to r., the two on 1.
carrying bows in their 1. hands and arrows (?) in r., the other two holding hook-
shaped objects in I. On either side of the third figure are conventional flowers.1
(2) Two Sphinxes to r. (both very incomplete^ ; the first has a woman's head,
and wings spread, one shown in front of body ; the latter's body is in outline
with markings, the hind-part remaining, together with the head and shoulders.
In the field are spirals, a rude quatrefoil, and other patterns; under the handles,
elaborate aquatic plants.

C 334. FRAGMENT OF KRATER. Ht. 7I in. Similarly acquired (tomb 93). Excavations

in Cyprus, p. 9, fig. 15 ; Jahrb. d. arc//. Inst. XXVE p. 220.

Buff slip ; thin paint varying from dark brown
to red. Five pieces joined and restored. Bands
round base of neck and below the design.

Two boxers confronted, with arms extended :
the bodies and limbs are very thin and tapering ;
the faces are in outline. Between them is a plant,
and in the field, pairs of curved lines and part of
another plant.

(-1 30c PART OF KRATER. Ht. ll| in. From excavations at Maroni, 1897 ; tomb 15.

Buff slip ; dark red paint. Made up from fragments and restored (including
foot) ; upper part and handles wanting. Round lower part, broad bands.
Broad frieze of nude men confronted in pairs, each with one
hand raised and the other lowered, with clenched fist ; the feet or
more of fifteen in all arc visible. Between them are patterns as
in annexed cut, sometimes single ; at one point is a circular object
covered with patches of paint

C 336 FRAGMENT OF KRATER. Length 5J in. From excavations at Maroni, 1897;

tomb 2.

Deep buff slip ; black paint varying to red on interior ; upper part painted
dark red all over. Two pieces joined.

See on these Bull. Coir. Bell., XXXI. p. 137, ami Miss Hall, Decorative Art of Crete, pp. 36, 44.