Cypriot Tall necked bottle No.3: Middle Cypriot I -IIa (2000-1800 BC)

As previous examples: Red-and-Black Polished III Ware . Probably made by Morris’s “Fine Line Artist”. Highly polished slip and very fine hatching (11-12 lines/cm).  Complete, fine condition, small chip and accretions on rim.

For general comments on the ware see the first tall necked bottle.

The incised motifs consist of bands of 3 horizontal lines at the top and bottom of neck, also three fifth down and three fifths up the neck, and below mid-line of body. Two vertical, 3 line zig-zags down the central neck alternate with vertical checkerboards of open-plain and enclosed-hatched rectangles. Body filled with three, joined diamonds each of three diagonal hatched stripes with plain stripes between. Single two line zig-zag below each join and two pairs of short diagonals above join. Spout perforations filled?

Unpublished.