Lapithos 32-27-391 | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Vessel: Lapithos 32-27-391

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Context Information

Site Name

Lapithos, Vrysi tou Barba

Date

2200 BCE - 1550 BCE

Site Type

Cemetery/Necropolis

Country/Region

Cyprus/Kyrenia Mountains and North Coast

Period

Early Cypriot, Middle Cypriot I-II, Middle Cypriot III

Archaeological Context

Tomb 806B

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Vessel Details

Shape

Bowl

Shape Type

Spouted

Fabric Description

Thick orange clay with large white and some black inclusions

Measurements (cms)

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Functional Category

Dining/Drinking/Serving

Surface treatment

Thick lustrous dark red-brown slip on interior, almost none preserved; on exterior, traces of thick dark red-brown paint on a light orange slip. Decoration: apparently some vertical straight and wavy lines, dots; almost none preserved.

Manufacturing Technique

Handmade

Firing

Oxidized

Vessel Images 4

Lapithos 32-27-391

Bowl

Lapithos

2200 BCE - 1550 BCE

Early Cypriot, Middle Cypriot I-II, Middle Cypriot III

Lapithos 32-27-391

Bowl

Lapithos

2200 BCE - 1550 BCE

Early Cypriot, Middle Cypriot I-II, Middle Cypriot III

Lapithos 32-27-391

Bowl

Lapithos

2200 BCE - 1550 BCE

Early Cypriot, Middle Cypriot I-II, Middle Cypriot III

Lapithos 32-27-391

Bowl

Lapithos

2200 BCE - 1550 BCE

Early Cypriot, Middle Cypriot I-II, Middle Cypriot III

Break Photos 0

Thin Section Photos 0

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Associated Ware/Ware Family/Style

Middle-Late Cypriot White Painted Handmade Wares

1950 BCE-1300 BCE

Middle Cypriot I-II, Middle Cypriot III, Late Cypriot I, Late Cypriot II A-B

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Associated Petrofabric

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Associated Kiln/Workshop

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Bibliography

Herscher, Ellen Carol. "The Bronze Age Cemetery at Lapithos, Vrysi tou Barba, Cyprus: Results of the University of Pennsylvania Museum Excavation, 1931", PhD, Classical Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania, 1978 , Page(s) 184-185, Number Tomb 806B, no. 8.
The Digital Penn Museum. 19 Oct 2019. https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/129089

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

This entry was created during an LCP workshop at the University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 19, 2019, and merges Ellen Herscher's observations in her 1978 dissertation with observations made during the workshop. This object is Field no. SF 283/291.