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Accession_Number Temp.2022.7.1
Shape Oinochoe
Shape_description it is a oinochoe (a jar used for cooking or for the storage of water or foods). Body rounded, domed to 1/3 of the height, short neck, the rim is circular and made to pour the liquid, small handle.
Material terracotta
Fabric Cyprote
Fabric_description browish-red clay
Munsell_color 7.5YR 4/4
Decoration no decoration, jug for domestic and daily use
Inscriptions
Condition body and handle are intact, without cracks: missing a piece of the neck edge (a little fragment is inside the jug)
Technique/Style turning lathe
Provenance Salamis
Period Cypro-Archaic I
Date 750-600
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image
Comparanda 13.10.12 (provenance, period, fabric)
Bibliography
Archive_Ref
Beazley_DB
Height 16.5
Diameters rim: 10.9 neck: 9.1 body: 14.3 base: 10.0
Handle_height 5.4
Other_dims.
Location 6.2
Edited_by Ludovica
Date_edited 07/07/2022
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