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Accession_Number 47.2.19
Shape Lacrymaterion
Shape_description
Material Terracotta
Fabric Perhaps Cypriote
Fabric_description Buff
Munsell_color 10YR 7/4
Decoration Wheel marks on flat base.
Inscriptions
Condition Good. Several chips on body and lip. Large amount of deposit on body
Technique/Style Wheel made
Provenance Said to be from an old tomb in Cyprus (Polis?)
Period Hellenistic I-Hellenistic II
Date
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

2003.98.0260.jpg
Side view of a Cypriote lacrymaterion, showing the body and the long neck.

2003.98.0261.jpg
Side view of a Cypriote lacrymaterion, showing the body and the long neck.

2003.98.0262.jpg
Top view of a Cypriote lacrymaterion, showing the mouth.

2003.98.0263.jpg
Underside view of a Cypriote lacrymaterion, showing the base.

2008.99.0114.jpg
Side view of a Cypriote lacrymaterion, showing the body and the long neck.

2008.99.0115.jpg
Side view of a Cypriote lacrymaterion, showing the body and the long neck.

2008.99.0116.jpg
Side view of a Cypriote lacrymaterion, showing the body and the long neck.

2008.99.0117.jpg
Side view of a Cypriote lacrymaterion, showing the body and the long neck.

2008.99.0118.jpg
Underside view of a Cypriote lacrymaterion, showing the base.

2008.99.0119.jpg
Oblique side view of a Cypriote lacrymaterion, showing the body, the long neck and the mouth.
Comparanda CCA 26 #35-36
Bibliography Arda, Baþak, A. Bernard Knapp, Jennifer M. Webb, ‘The Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Hunterian Museum University of Glasgow’, CCA 26, Paul Åstroms Förlag, Sävedalen, 2005.
Archive_Ref
Beazley_DB
Height 16.0
Diameters (base) 2.5 (mouth) 1.5 (body) 4.6 (foot) 2.8
Handle_height Not Applicable
Other_dims.
Location 2.1.2
Edited_by Vanessa; Marianne; Amy; Marianne; Joana Varela
Date_edited 30.07.02; 08.06.07; 14.07.07; 19.11.2008; 05.04.2017
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