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LOT 0538
Cypriot Painted Terracotta Amphora
CIRCA 8TH-5TH CENTURY B.C.
4 5/8 in. (164 grams, 11.8 cm wide).
In black-painted geometric buffware, with wide bands of black painted decoration on the ovoid body and on the rim, loop handles.
Provenance
Ex P.A., Hertfordshire, UK, specialist collection of Greek art, 1980-1990s.
Accompanied by a copy of an old typed catalogue slip.
Literature
Cf. similar item in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no. 74.51.779, for the type.
Footnotes
The type is well known on Cyprus from 850 B.C. The simplification of the geometric ornaments in panels on the neck and shoulder suggest that the present specimen is later than the Geometric Period.
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