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 424.

C 425.

C 426.

C 427.

C 428.

KRATER. Ht. Sj in. Diam. gi in. Similarly acquired. Excavations in Cyprus,
p. 45, fig- 7i.

Straight sides and narrow rim ; thin loop-handles sloping upwards. Slip
and paint as last. Repaired ; rim damaged ; paint much worn. On either side
of body, three large spirals linked together ; on r. (adjoining handle), a tree.
Below the design, broad bands ; paint on rim, handles, and foot.

FRAGMENT OF KRATER. Ht. 6 in. Length io in.
From excavations at Enkomi (Turner Bequest), 1S96 ; tomb 88.
Excavations in Cyprus, p. 34, fig. 62. Buff slip (poor) ; purple-
red paint, somewhat dull. Three pieces joined and restored.
Frieze with two bulls confronted (hind parts of both and legs of
that on r. wanting) ; bodies covered with spots ; between them,
plant with oval leaves. Below, broad band ; paint on rim. Fig. 153 = 0425.

FRAGMENT, similar. Ht. 3J in. Length, 5] in. From excavations at Maroni, 1897.
Drab slip; dull pinkish-brown paint. Part of rim remaining. Heads of two long-horned
quadrupeds (stags?) ; bands below, and paint on rim.

FRAGMENT OF KRATER. Ht. 4 in. From excavations at Enkomi (Turner Bequest),
1896; tomb 50. Buff slip; dull reddish-brown paint. Upper part, with part of rim. Bands
round rim and below ; on shoulder, fore-part of bull to r., partly in outline, and tree.

DOUBLE VASE in the form of two Kraters joined. Ht i\ in. From excavations at
Enkomi (Turner Bequest), 1S96 ; tomb 88. Excavations in Cyprus, p. 34, tig. 62 ; Jonrn.
Anthrop. Inst., N. S. III. (1900), p. 208.

Pale buff slip ; red paint, varying from light to dark
Between the two bodies is a transverse handle, broken off,
and each has three small handles on the shoulder ; the con-
necting piece between the two is pierced with three holes.
One mouth injured. Paint on lip (short strokes), neck,
handles, and feet ; on the shoulder, two rows of zigzags ; on
lower part of body pattern of concentric semicircles, below which in one case '
are zigzags, in the other, vertical lines; these patterns are divided by bands.

Fig. 15 ( = C 4=8

THREE-HANDLED JARS (C 429-478).

Three principal varieties: (1) mostly of large size, with high neck and
swelling body on a high narrow stem ; (2) similar but smaller, with very short
neck ; (3) body much contracted and sometimes almost cylindrical, the stem
being much thicker in proportion. Cf. Furtwaengler and Loeschcke, My ken.
Vasen, pi. 44, Nos. 25, 27, 28, and A 532 ff.

(1) Type with High Neck (C 429-436). Form 50.

C 429. THREE-HANDLED JAR. Ht. 9I in. Diam. of mouth, 4J in. 1876 (Cesnola). PiaTE

Usual Mycenaean technique, but the surface has suffered and the paint is
discoloured, the slip being now of a greenish-drab tone, the paint a dull brown.