Enkomi Digitisation Project

A1699

Object type
Pithoid jar
Tomb No (findspot)
A1699
Ware
Mycenaean style
Chronology
1375-1300 B.C.
Dimensions
Height: 14.4cm
Diameter: 9.4cm (rim)
Bibliography
CVA 1, 22, pl. 19.3
Ǻström 1972, 298
Preservation
Intact
Fabric Description
Hard yellowish buff fabric, slightly lustrous slip, small to medium white and brown inclusions.

Description
Sloping rim, short concave neck, advanced piriform body, short torus foot, two opposing horizontal rounded handles.

Decoration
Decorated in dark brown paint with parallel strokes on the rim, solid paint on the neck and foot and multiple bands on body and a series of vertical short strokes on the shoulder zone.

Comments
A thumb depression is visible on one side.