Carlotta - the museum database

NM Ant 1595 :: tankard

Object description: Globular depressed body; tall concave neck; flat out-turned rim; flat handle from rim to shoulder with fishtail projection at the top (thumb-grip); ring base. Another fishtail projection on shoulder opposite handle. Hard, brick clay; lustrous, light cream slip; brown matt paint. Line encircling upper base. Vertical rows of ladder pattern and bands of hatched lozenges with shorter bands of hatched lozenges in their interstices on body. Ladder pattern encircling upper body at handle hight. Line encircling neck-base. Wide, vertical bands of two parallel chains of hatched lozenges on neck. Four parallel lines encircling mid-neck. Two wavy lines on rim. Short, vertical dotted bands framed by four parallel lines on inside of neck and projection. Lines encircling abutments of handle and projections. Three wavy lines on outside of handle and projections.

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Inventory number

NM Ant 1595

Serie nummer

6042

Object

tankard

Country - Findspot

Cyprus : Europe

Place - Findspot

Kourion [?]

Material

Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik

Exhibitions

Centralhallen02.

Acquisition

Deposit from the National Museum. Gift from Charles Watkins, Swedish Consul in Larnaca, Cyprus, in 1890.

Description

Globular depressed body; tall concave neck; flat out-turned rim; flat handle from rim to shoulder with fishtail projection at the top (thumb-grip); ring base. Another fishtail projection on shoulder opposite handle. Hard, brick clay; lustrous, light cream slip; brown matt paint. Line encircling upper base. Vertical rows of ladder pattern and bands of hatched lozenges with shorter bands of hatched lozenges in their interstices on body. Ladder pattern encircling upper body at handle hight. Line encircling neck-base. Wide, vertical bands of two parallel chains of hatched lozenges on neck. Four parallel lines encircling mid-neck. Two wavy lines on rim. Short, vertical dotted bands framed by four parallel lines on inside of neck and projection. Lines encircling abutments of handle and projections. Three wavy lines on outside of handle and projections.

Period