Semitic Museum No. 1995.10.302
Red Polished Juglet
Date: Early Cypriot

Form: Red Polished III Ware "gourd" juglet. Piriform to ovoid body with rounded base, high cylindrical neck, wide flaring bell rim flattened to be disk-like in shape. Single vertical handle with a slight v-bend at mid-height, circular to sub-rectangular in section, from rim to high on shoulder.

Fabric: Fine buff clay (10YR 8/3 very pale brown).

Decoration: Thick orange /red slip (5YR 5/6 yellowish red). White-filled incised decoration: two sets of 4 and 5 incised encircling lines near rim and around the neck close to shoulder junction, row of incised diamond shapes with slanting, diagonal incisions inside, numbering 7 to 10, vertical panels on body consist of diamonds with diagonal incisions, and 2 sets of vertical lines also bordering diagonal incisions and 5 sets of horizontal bands with diagonal incisions between them; 5 sets of 5 rows of connecting incised lines (see photo) make up an irregular circle near the base. The back of the handle is decorated with incised diagonal bands which are difficult to see. The entire vessel is highly burnished/polished.

Technical/Manufacturing: Burnish/polishing marks visible. Some spauling, one large lime inclusion blown out.

Remarks: Provenance Alambra per Cesnola. Original Stanford number lost, TP means temporary number. SCE IV:1A, Stewart's Type IB3c1 variant a, ECBA, see below. New studies by Jane Barlow on the Red Polished Ware from Alambra Mouttes have divided Red Polished Ware into categories Red Polished A and B with distinct fabrics which the author believes form regional styles and fabrics, see Barlow and Vaughan references in the Bibliography. Early Cypriot/Middle Cypriot in date.

• Publication: None, not studied by Villa (1969). On exhibition Semitic Museum Ancient Cyprus 1997 - .
• Comparanda SM: Only Red Polished incised vessel in collection, but see 1995.10.478.
• Comparanda Elsewhere: Villa 1969: 11, Stanford objects number 1-4, i.e. 4492, 2485, 4711, 66.355 and references. SCE IV:1A: 310, reference to Stanford number 4492 which is illustrated on the Stanford University Website: www.stanford.edu/dept/ccva/collections.html, Cantor Arts Center, click on: database; Search the Database:country/select Cyprus, CCVA no. 4492, Stanford Family Collections, similar shaped vessel with some of the same decorative motifs . Morris 1985:323-341, but decorative motifs not illustrated in Thematic Variations.