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MM 10831 :: jug

Object description: Pinched mouth. Short concave neck. Globular body. Raised, twin handle from rim to shoulder. Slightly raised base. Decoration: brown and reddish-brown paint. Brown concentric circles on both sides of the body. Band encircling neck-base. Wavy, reddish-brown line on neck and two brown lines encircling rim. Rim painted brown. Horizontal, brown strokes on handle. From the handle a vertical line is prolonged downwards and crossed by an oblique line. Buff clay, buff slip.

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References (6)

Inventory number

MM 10831

Serie nummer

7397

Object

jug

Object, Swedish

kanna; kärl

Country - Findspot

Cyprus : Europe

Place - Findspot

Unknown.

Geographic name, alternative - Swedish

Cypern

Material

Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik

Acquisition

Purchased from the Gayer-Anderson collection in 1930.

Description, Swedish

Kanna av keramik

Description

Pinched mouth. Short concave neck. Globular body. Raised, twin handle from rim to shoulder. Slightly raised base. Decoration: brown and reddish-brown paint. Brown concentric circles on both sides of the body. Band encircling neck-base. Wavy, reddish-brown line on neck and two brown lines encircling rim. Rim painted brown. Horizontal, brown strokes on handle. From the handle a vertical line is prolonged downwards and crossed by an oblique line. Buff clay, buff slip.

Period

C.A. II. (600-475 BC)

Name - Acquired from

Gayer-Anderson, Robert Grenville

Description: Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson, Major, after qualifying as a Doctor at Guy's Hospital, became an officer in the Royal Army, Medical Corps. He received his commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1903. He was lent to the Egyptian Government in 1905 by the British Government and spent the rest of his carrier in service of Egypt, in both military and civil capacities, reaching the rank of "Lewa" (Major General) and having the title of Pasha conferred upon him. He collected Egyptian objects of great significance. They are preserved in Gayer-Anderson Pasha museum in Cairo. He is the author of "Legends of the Bait al-Kretliya" (Luzac, London) and Christeros, poems (Wilding, Shrewsbury). He died in Lavenham in 1945. (www.indianminiature.org, 2012-08-31)
Source - http: vocab.getty.edu, collections.smvk.se, digitaltmuseum.org, id.loc.gov
Source, Wikip. - is desc. by: en.wikipedia.org
Source, Viaf - same as: viaf.org, viaf.org
Source, Kulturnav - same as: kulturnav.org

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