Cypriot Lekythos with black slip
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Object number
AR3086E
| Object: |
Lekythos
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| Material: |
Yellowish clay with brown-black slip
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| Date: |
Late Iron Age of ancient Cyprus
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| Description: |
Globular jug with small discus-shaped base, a widening on the high thin neck, a funnel-shaped mouth and one handle. Fully covered with brown-black slip. |
| Size: |
Height 90 mm, diameter 52 mm
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| Condition: |
Undamaged, only minimal wear, small chip at mouth. Black slip preserved with some wear.
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| References: |
Compare Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, London, British Museum 2, IICC.17, Pl. 20.6 , this vase with a cone-shaped mouth. Compare V. Karageorghis, J.R. Mertens, M.E. Rose, Ancient Art from Cyprus, The Cesnola Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2000) S. 178-9, Nr. 292, here globular body and made of silver. |
| 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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| Authenticity: |
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