Enkomi Digitisation Project

A1692

Object type
Pithoid jar
Tomb No (findspot)
Unknown
A1692
Ware
Mycenaean style
Chronology
1375-1300 B.C.
Dimensions
Height: 16.1cm
Diameter: 9.1cm (rim)
Bibliography
Åström 1972, 305
Preservation
Intact
Fabric Description
Hard pink to orange fabric, lustrous surface with small brown inclusions.

Description
Rim sloping outwards, short neck, piriform body, splaying foot.

Decoration
Decorated with fugitive dark brown paint on interior of rim,  and a series of five parallel bands, a band on the neck and multiple parallel lines below, a frieze of vertical short lines at the handle zone and alternating thin and thick bands on the lower part and upper part of foot; lower foot in solid paint.