Acquisition number: 1994.03
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Small Cypriot Cup. Pale clay with some large white and smaller dark inclusions and temper burn-out holes; smoothly finished. Simple lip, slightly in-turned. There are pierced, spurred lugs attached to the rim on each side. Disc foot.
There is red-brown paint over the lugs, both above and below. The rest of the decoration is in a matt grey-black applied around the lip and in concentric lines on the upper and lower faces, including the underside of the foot.
Title: Small Cypriot Cup - 1994.03
Acquisition number: 1994.03
Culture or period: Pre-Classical Cypriot.
Date: 850 - 475 BC
Material: Clay
Object type: Vessels - Cup/mug
Dimensions: 116mm (l) × 132mm (w) × 35mm (h)
Origin region or location: Cyprus
Display case or on loan: 1
Keywords: Cypriot, Pre-Classical, Archaic
The Antiquities & Ethnographica Society, Adelaide, Catalogue 5, December 1974, item 70. Not in J.M. Webb, Cypriote Antiquities in Australian Collections, i (Corpus of Cypriote Antiquities 18, SIMA XX:18, Jonsered 1997).
1994.03
Small Cypriot Cup
Given by Mr Greg Murphy. Ht ca 3.5cm; diam. 11.6cm; max. diam. (with lugs) 13.2cm.
Intact and in good condition except for some distortion of the lower wall and base during the course of manufacture (before decoration and firing). There is some blackening from secondary firing about the base and lower wall on one side. There is some light incrustation.
Pale clay with some large white and smaller dark inclusions and temper burn-out holes; smoothly finished. Simple lip, slightly in-turned. There are pierced, spurred lugs attached to the rim on each side. Disc foot.
There is red-brown paint over the lugs, both above and below. The rest of the decoration is in a matt grey-black applied around the lip and in concentric lines on the upper and lower faces, including the underside of the foot.
Archaic Cypriot; ca 850-475 BC. The piece is typical of the simpler decorated ware of the period.
The Antiquities & Ethnographica Society, Adelaide, Catalogue 5, December 1974, item 70. Not in J.M. Webb, Cypriote Antiquities in Australian Collections, i (Corpus of Cypriote Antiquities 18, SIMA XX:18, Jonsered 1997).