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THE POTTERY OF CYPRUS.
C 391.
C 392.
KRATERS WITHOUT NECK (C 391-428.)
(a) With Flat Handles (C 391-396). Form 48.
KRATER. Ht. 17! in. Diam. 17 in. From excavations at Curium (Turner Bequest),
1895 ; tomb 102. Excavations in Cyprus, p. 73, fig. 127 ; J.H.S., XXL, p. 112, fig. 6 ; Jahrb.
d. arch, hist., XXVI. p. 232.
Flat vertical handles, and thick rim sloping outwards. Light buff slip ;
dark red paint. Much shattered ; restored from fragments, but most of upper
part wanting. Paint on rim
(inside and out) and foot ; broad
borders of paint to handles, with
bands across ; round lower part
of body, five broad bands.
Underneath the foot is painted
red a character
like
round
foot is a ring of
the Cypriote sign for pa ;
the edge of the
perforated holes.
A. Part of chariot-group
of usual type to r. (heads of
figures, part of chariot, and
hinder parts of horses) ; on 1.,
four panels forming a square,
with borders of ladder-pattern,
in which are figures of women,
in two pairs confronted, holding
up their hands ; they wear tight bodices and horizontally-striped skirts, and
their hair falls in long plaits or curls down their back. B. Similar design :
on 1., part of large single panel with woman to 1. ; in the middle, part of chariot-
group as before (body of car and wheel, lower part of horses) ; on r., two laro-e
panels with borders of ladder-pattern, in which arc women as on obverse.
[Sir A. Evans m/.f/.S., loc. cit., explains the figures of women as female votaries holding
up their hands in adoration before sacred columns. See Introduction.]
C 391.
KRATER. Ht. 12^ in. Diam. 13 in. From excavations
at Enkomi (Turner Bequest), 1896; tomb 67. Excavations in
Cyprus, p. 37, fig. 65 ; Journ. R. Inst. Brit. Archit., 3rd Ser.,
VII. No. 2, p. 25.
Form and technique as last. Repaired and
restored ; paint worn. Round upper part of body,
three broad bands of chevrons enclosing triangles,
divided by pairs of narrow bands ; below, three bands.
Paint on rim (inside and out) and foot ; oblique bars
on handles.
C 39a.
THE POTTERY OF CYPRUS.
C 391.
C 392.
KRATERS WITHOUT NECK (C 391-428.)
(a) With Flat Handles (C 391-396). Form 48.
KRATER. Ht. 17! in. Diam. 17 in. From excavations at Curium (Turner Bequest),
1895 ; tomb 102. Excavations in Cyprus, p. 73, fig. 127 ; J.H.S., XXL, p. 112, fig. 6 ; Jahrb.
d. arch, hist., XXVI. p. 232.
Flat vertical handles, and thick rim sloping outwards. Light buff slip ;
dark red paint. Much shattered ; restored from fragments, but most of upper
part wanting. Paint on rim
(inside and out) and foot ; broad
borders of paint to handles, with
bands across ; round lower part
of body, five broad bands.
Underneath the foot is painted
red a character
like
round
foot is a ring of
the Cypriote sign for pa ;
the edge of the
perforated holes.
A. Part of chariot-group
of usual type to r. (heads of
figures, part of chariot, and
hinder parts of horses) ; on 1.,
four panels forming a square,
with borders of ladder-pattern,
in which are figures of women,
in two pairs confronted, holding
up their hands ; they wear tight bodices and horizontally-striped skirts, and
their hair falls in long plaits or curls down their back. B. Similar design :
on 1., part of large single panel with woman to 1. ; in the middle, part of chariot-
group as before (body of car and wheel, lower part of horses) ; on r., two laro-e
panels with borders of ladder-pattern, in which arc women as on obverse.
[Sir A. Evans m/.f/.S., loc. cit., explains the figures of women as female votaries holding
up their hands in adoration before sacred columns. See Introduction.]
C 391.
KRATER. Ht. 12^ in. Diam. 13 in. From excavations
at Enkomi (Turner Bequest), 1896; tomb 67. Excavations in
Cyprus, p. 37, fig. 65 ; Journ. R. Inst. Brit. Archit., 3rd Ser.,
VII. No. 2, p. 25.
Form and technique as last. Repaired and
restored ; paint worn. Round upper part of body,
three broad bands of chevrons enclosing triangles,
divided by pairs of narrow bands ; below, three bands.
Paint on rim (inside and out) and foot ; oblique bars
on handles.
C 39a.