Cyprus/Kyrenia Mountains and North Coast
Early Cypriot I-II
Karmi-Lapatsa Tomb 15, in the chamber (no. 22 near dromos)
Jar
"Earlug" pot, pointed base
Exterior: red: 10R 5/6 (red) – 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow); black: 2.5 N/ black; fabric 5YR 6/4 (light reddish brown); Interior: 2.5 N/ black; Core: 2.5 Y 6/1 (gray) – 5YR 6/4 (light reddish brown)
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Transport/Storage
red slipped, polished, and black slipped, horizontal burnishing at neck, burnishing on body but direction harder to determine, looks like multiple directions; interior looks unburnished; incised decoration, lime filled.
Handmade; inclusions: “finely mixed clay with small inclusions and organics” (webb et al. 2009: 55). some sand (black and white lime), Few small organics (fired out), Few medium lime and other darker stone, and Few small voids.
oxidized and placed upside down in dung or other material to reduce top and interior (black-topped)
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unpublished study by Herscher, which informed an exhibition, see catalogue: Kershaw ed. 1983) and measurements, color readings, observations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. SN74.28
Classified in
Webb et al. 2009 as Red Polished I black-topped.
Illustrated in Sendova et al. 2005, but not sampled for analysis.
