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)

LATER GRAECO-PHOENICIAN WARES.

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C 894. TWO-HANDLED BARREL-SHAPED FLASK. Form between 98 and 103. lit. 61in.

Asia Minor (?). Morel Coll., 1905.

Form as C y/6, but with two slim double-ribbed handles like the lentoid
flasks ; narrow neck with wide-spreading mouth and handlc-ridge. Red slip,
highly polished; dull black paint. Well modelled. Rings round neck and
mouth ; cross-strokes on handles and stripes down sides. Round the body, two
vertical bands, each of six fine rings, between which, under the handles, are

patterns ; at each end a group of fine concentric rings surrounded by a

narrow band.

C 895. FLASK, similar. Ht. 3J in. From excavations at Amathus (Turner

Bequest), 1894; tomb 286. Excavations in Cyprus, p. 108, fig. 156, No. 8.
Found with C 887, 891-892, etc.

Form as preceding, but mouth very large in proportion to body ;
handles of single ribs. Polished red slip ; dull black paint. Round
mouth and neck, narrow bands and fine rings ; ladder-pattern on
handles. Patterns on body almost exactly as on preceding.

C 896.

C 897.

G 898.

C 899.

BARREL-SHAPED LEKYTHOS. Form 98. Ht. 3} in. From excavations at
Amathus (Turner Bequest), 1894 ; tomb 201. Found with C 884-885.

Narrow neck with handle-ridge and spreading mouth (lip damaged) ; slim
handle. Polished red slip ; black paint, worn in parts. Rings on mouth and
bands on neck ; ladder-pattern on handle. On body in front, pattern as on last;
round each side, three vertical rings ; at each end, a fine spiral merging into an
outer ring.

BARREL-SHAPED LEKYTHOS, similar. Form 98. Ht. y„ in. Similarly acquired
tomb 286).

Inferior pinkish-red slip ; black paint, much worn. Patterns as on last, with
seven vertical rings and pattern on front duplicated.

1894

ARYBALLOS. Form 104. Ht. 3I in. From excavations at Amathus (Turner Bequest),
; tomb 7. Excavations in Cyprus, p. 108, fig. 156, No. 9.

Form as Cyprus Mus. Cat. 977-978 ; globular body ; slim neck with handle-
ridge and funnel-shaped mouth ; very thin handle. Bright red slip ; black paint.
Rings on mouth and neck ; paint on handle ; on shoulder, three groups of three
concentric circles ; round the bod)-, four rings.

ARYBALLOS, similar. Form 104. Ht. 3^ in. Similarly acquired (tomb 2).

Light red slip ; black paint. Bod)- more ovoid and handle thicker than
last. Patterns as last (six rings on body).