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MM 1995:009 :: amphora

Object description: White Painted amphora with typical Red Polished III shape: globular body, wide neck and slightly splaying rim. Small, vertical handles from neck to shoulder. Surface is smoothed. Burnished slip. Matt reddish-brown paint. One horizontal line on shoulder ond one above base. Between these lines, body is decorated with vertical, wavy lines alternating with vertical lines of dots. Neck is decorated with vertical lines of small punctured knobs in relief alternating with vertical incised zigzag and dot design framed by vertical lines of painted dots.

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Inventory number

MM 1995:009

Serie nummer

5972

Object

amphora

Object, Swedish

amfora

Country - Findspot

Cyprus : Europe

Place - Findspot

Cyprus (see comments).

Material

Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik

Acquisition

Adelborg Collection. Acquired by artist M. Adelborg in Cyprus in the 1960’s. Acquired by Medelhavsmuseet in 1995.

Description, Swedish

Amfora från Cypern, ca 1900 f Kr.

Description

White Painted amphora with typical Red Polished III shape: globular body, wide neck and slightly splaying rim. Small, vertical handles from neck to shoulder. Surface is smoothed. Burnished slip. Matt reddish-brown paint. One horizontal line on shoulder ond one above base. Between these lines, body is decorated with vertical, wavy lines alternating with vertical lines of dots. Neck is decorated with vertical lines of small punctured knobs in relief alternating with vertical incised zigzag and dot design framed by vertical lines of painted dots.

Period

M.C. I. (1800-1750 BC)

Name - Acquired from

Adelborg, Margareta

Description: Margareta Adelborg, artist, married to Lars Einar Herman Fritiof Lynge-Ahlberg, born in Malmö on the 8th of September 1913, also artist. They got married in 1951.
Source - http: collections.smvk.se, www.signaturer.se
Source, Kulturnav - same as: kulturnav.org

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