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Cypriot bichrome ware Lekythos

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Object number
AR3086B
Object: Lekythos

Material: Red clay with pale slip and black and red painting

Date: First half 1st millenium B.C.
Middle Iron Age of Cyprus, so-called bichrome ware

Description:    Globular jug with small discus-shaped base, a ridge on the high thin neck, a slightly funnel-shaped mouth and one handle.
With geometric decoration.

Size: Height 76 mm, diameter 45 mm

Condition: Tiny chip at lip, otherwise undamaged. Only minimal wear, painting very well preserved. Collection number "2" written with pencil on base.

Reference: For the shape, see e.g. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Leipzig, Archäologisches Institut der Karl-Marx-Universität 1, Pl. 11.1-2

Provenance: Acquired 2020 from a German private collection. Inherited in this from the collection of the German artist Lotti Huber, who received this lekythos together with other objects as a gift from her husband Alec Kingaby in the 1950s during their stay on Cyprus. Mr. Kingaby has found the objects during an excavation on Cyprus. Ms. Huber took the objects to London in 1960, and 1965 to Berlin as she moved to Germany. The objects have been in Germany since 1965.

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