Enkomi Digitisation Project

A1697

Object type
Pithoid jar
Tomb No (findspot)
A1697
Ware
Mycenaean style
Chronology
1375-1300 B.C.
Dimensions
Height: 14.7cm
Diameter: 9.1cm (rim)
Bibliography
Åström 1972, 298
Preservation
One handle missing.
Fabric Description
Hard pink-buff fabric  with small brown inclusions and some lime spalling on surface, lustrous surface.

Description
Wide mouth, rim sloping outwards, short wide neck, wide conical body and short splaying foot; three rounded horizontal handles on shoulder.

Decoration
Decorated with broad bands of dark brown paint on interior of rim, multiple thin parallel lines on rim, band of paint on neck and multiple thin parallel lines below and a frieze of N-pattern on the shoulder zone. Bands of alternating broad and thin bands below shoulder zone and on lower part and foot.