Jar

Museum number:
8-7995
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Accession number:
Acc.147
Description:
Jar; small globular body with incompletely flattened base; wide cylindrical neck with projection at one side of rim and diagonally set upthrust loop handle on opposite side of rim; handle goes from rim to shoulder. Incised linear decoration; parallel bands of horizontal zigzags separated by straight lines.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson and M. Boissé
Collection place:
Cyprus
Culture or time period:
Early Cypriot Bronze Age (ca. 2300–1900 BC)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Jars
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 8-7995, described as Jar; small globular body with incompletely flattened base; wide cylindrical neck with projection at one side of rim and diagonally set upthrust loop handle on opposite side of rim; handle goes from rim to shoulder. Incised linear decoration; parallel bands of horizontal zigzags separated by straight lines.

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