Cypriot White Painted Earthenware Lagynos
Cypro-Hellenistic II (150–50 BC). Height 19.9cm. Diameter 5.2cm, diameter of base 10.6cm.
A lagynos with a ring base and a carinated body. It has a long, narrow, concave neck with a flaring mouth. A rope-shaped, slightly raised handle extends from the neck to the shoulder. Made of buff clay with a matte buff slip and matte red paint. Red bands encircle the upper neck just below the rim, the lower neck, the shoulder, the body (two bands) and the base. Traces of red paint remain on the handle.
The location and find date of the object is not recorded. It has been suggested that it may have come from Aphendrika.
The lagynos was given as a gift by L.Z. Pierides to the Crown Prince of Sweden Gustaf Adolf in 1925 and later donated to the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm in 1926. In 1982 it was deposited at the Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden (Inv. No.: SHM 17946:0092) joining objects from the SCE in the wider Cyprus collection.