Enkomi Digitisation Project

A1670

Object type
Pithoid jar
Tomb No (findspot)
A1670
Ware
Mycenaean style
Chronology
1375-1200 B.C.
Dimensions
Height: 16.5cm
Diameter: 9.7cm (rim)
Bibliography
Ǻström 1972, 305
Preservation
Intact
Fabric Description
Hard, pink-buff fabric with sparse white and dark inclusions. Slightly lustrous surface.

Description
Flat outward sloping rim, short neck, biconical body, short splaying foot, concave base and three horizontal round handles on the shoulder.

Decoration
Decorated with parallel bands in dark brown and reddish fugitive paint on the interior of the rim and neck, multiple thin parallel lines on neck as well as on foot.  Net pattern on the handle zone.