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 746.

C 747.

C 748.

C 749.

C 750.

SHALLOW BOWL. Form 79 (nearly). Diam. j~ in. From Amathus. Presented by
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 18S0.

Red clay with drab slip ; dull purple and red paint. Narrow solid handle
attached to rim each side, pierced in the middle ; low foot. Surface much worn
and scraped. Paint on handle and rim ; in the interior, concentric rings round
centre, and two on rim. On exterior, wide and narrow rings, red and purple ;
concentric rings on foot.

BOWL. Form 92. Ht. 7$ in. Diam. 8j in. Kition (Larnaka), Richter, 1881.

Form as Mycenaean krater (C 385 ff.), but no rim, and foot proportionately
higher ; deep bowl with slim vertical handles placed high up. Drab slip ; dull
black paint. Paint on handles, foot, and inside rim. On body (a) vertical band
of lattice-pattern between pairs of lines ; lattice-lozenge between vertical lines ;
zigzag line between straight ones ; (b) the same, but with zigzag in place of
lattice-band. Below, two bands all round.

BOWL. Form 92. Ht. 7 in. Diam. 8^ in. From R. H. Lang's excavations at Dali ;
acquired 1873.

Form as last, but approximating more to the kylix type. Buff slip ; dark
brown paint. Paint on rim, handles and foot ; on body each side, lattice-lozenge
between solid triangles ; below, two bands all round.

BOWL, similar. Form 92. Ht. 4J in. Diam. 6\ in. Similarly acquired.
Rim sloping outwards ; vertical handles placed low down (one broken).
Drab slip; dull brown paint. Cf. for the form C 721. Paint on rim, handles.

and foot ; two bands round lower part of interior. On the exterior, (a)

with group of four vertical lines on either side, (b) two vertical bands of oblique
lines as in (a).

KYLIX. Form 92. Ht. 6 in. Diam. 7J in. 1869 (Sandwith).

Type as Cyprus Mas. Cat., 953A, with moulding round middle of body like
the early Attic b. f. type ; small handles sloping upwards, and slim foot. Buff
slip ; dull black paint. Surface worn in parts. Paint on rim, handles and foot ;
rings round stem. On the body each side, two friezes divided by a broad band ;

in the upper

five time repeated ; in the lower,

three times ;

below all round, two broad bands.

C 751.

BOWL. Ht. 5i in. Diam. 5! in. 1876 (Cesnola).

Drab clay ; dull brown paint. The foot rests on three handle-like supports
looped up and attached to the under-side of the bowl ; there are two double
handles parallel to the sides, each with a nose-like projection between, alternating
with single handles (one wanting) at right angles to the sides ; flat rim. One

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