Iron Age Bichrome Two-Handled Krater
9th-7th century BC. A ceramic Cypriot krater with flared foot, broad neck, everted rim and lateral strap handles; circumferential concentric painted rings to the shoulder, painted bands to the neck with hatched panels and swastikas, groups of radiating strokes to the rim, zigzag to the handles. Cf. similar type in the Semitic Museum at Harvard University, USA, acquisition number 1995.10.34. 1.7 kg, 25.5cm (10"). From a West Sussex collection formed before 1980; most of the collection being acquired by Desmond Morris in the 1980s. [No Reserve]
Condition Report: Fair condition, repaired.
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9th-7th century BC. A ceramic Cypriot krater with flared foot, broad neck, everted rim and lateral strap handles; circumferential concentric painted rings to the shoulder, painted bands to the neck with hatched panels and swastikas, groups of radiating strokes to the rim, zigzag to the handles. Cf. similar type in the Semitic Museum at Harvard University, USA, acquisition number 1995.10.34. 1.7 kg, 25.5cm (10"). From a West Sussex collection formed before 1980; most of the collection being acquired by Desmond Morris in the 1980s. [No Reserve]
Condition Report: Fair condition, repaired.
