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A Cypriot Knob-Lug Bowl
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Medium walled buff clay, polished red and black, fired black on inside and a band around the exterior rim, hemispherical in shape with a small string-hole lug at the rim. This bowl belongs to a class which is characterized by a decoration in two-tone. A common method used by covering the rim and the inside with ashes. Placed upside down in the kiln the pottery was given a black color, the covered surface not being fully oxidized.

Provenance:
Ex. A.G. Collection, 1976-1993.
Condition:
Intact with some surface wear.
References:
cf. Ancient Cyprus 7,000 years of art & Archaeology, p. 36, no 19. Corpus of Cypriote Antiquities, vol. II, (1979).
The Cypriote Collection of the museum of art and archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, p. 44, nos. 13-14.
Category:
Greek
Period:
Cypriot
Date:
Early III-Middle Cypriot III, c. 2000-1600 B.C.
Material:
Terra Cotta
Width:
4 1/8" (10.4cm)
Height:
2 1/2" (6.3cm)
Display Stand:
No
 
 

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