Cyprus/Kyrenia Mountains and North Coast
Early Cypriot I-II
Karmi-Lapatsa Tomb 15, chamber (no. 13 in vicinity of skull B)
Amphora
upright lug handles with punctate decoration
Exterior: slip 10R 4/6 red with part 7.5 YR 4/1 (dark gray); fabric 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) to 7.5 YR 7/4 (pink); Interior: fabric: 7.5YR 7/4 (pink), slip ; slip 5YR 5/4 (reddish brown); Core: 7.5YR 7/4 (pink) (in chips at rim)
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Transport/Storage
red slip, burnished in several directions, streaky
Handmade, Neck to body join seen in horizontal groove; inclusions: “well mixed clay with small, Medium, And large inclusions and organics” (webb et al. 2009: 54); many sand (few black, Mostly white lime); many medium to large lime, Many spawling and have pushed slip off the surface of the vessel, and Some medium darker inclusions
oxidized and partly reduced in parts from placement in kiln probably, interior more reduced than exterior
Acknowledgements: This entry was created by Smith using
information in Webb et al. 2009 (which drew on a previous unpublished study by
Herscher, which informed an exhibition, see catalogue: Kershaw ed. 1983) and measurements, color readings, observations of inclusions and
surface treatments, and other observed details made by Smith during the week of
February 24-28, 2020 at The Ringling Museum of Art.
Provenance: Excavated by James R. B. Stewart in 1961,
University of Sydney; donated by Eve Stewart to Florida State University 1973;
donated by Florida State University 1973; 1974 accessioned by The John and
Mable Ringling Museum of Art. SN74.11
Classified
in Webb et al. 2009 as Red Polished I.
