Tall, flattened oval pottery vessel with small flared ordinary mouth, small foot, and buff coloured with black zigzag ornament which is mostly faded.

Collection type: Object
Description: Tall, flattened oval pottery vessel with small flared ordinary mouth, small foot, and buff coloured with black zigzag ornament which is mostly faded.
Geographical reference: Cyprus
Asia > Western Asia > Cyprus; Unknown
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Alessandro Palma di Cesnola; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Middle Bronze Age
Date collected: By 1884
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Process Incised, Process Decorated
Dimensions: Height: max 161 mm, Width: max 77 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.38.11 PR Cat other PR nos: 1402 PR no.: 4?/ 913
Research and responses: This object is from the Lawrence-Cesnola collection which was sold at Sotheby on 15th May 1884. This object is part of lot number 1402 which is described in the sale catalogue as 'an Askos'. See copy of auctioneer's copy of the sale catalogue which is in the Cesnola Collectors File (the auctioneer's copy has who bought the object written in the margin, these are on microfilm in the Bodleian Library, Oxford). The Lawrence-Cesnola collection was mainly made up of objects collected or purchased from other collectors by Major A. Palma di Cesnola who was funded by Edwin Henry Lawrence. This is the sale of Lawrence's collection. Lawrence also purchased material from Major di Cesnola's brother - General Luigi Palma di Cesnola but, from the information in the sale catalogue it is extremely unlikely that this object is from General di Cesnola's collection. [MdeA 23 6 1999]

Search terms: Vessel, Pottery, Jug

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