Cypriot Black-on-Red II (IV) Earthenware Footed Bowl
Cypro-Archaic I (700-600BC). Height 13.6cm. Diameter of base 7.1cm, diameter of rim 16.5cm.
A footed bowl with a conical base and short ridged stem. The body is conical below and cylindrical above, with a sharp rim and round horizontal handles at mid-body. Made of light buff clay with a semi-lustrous buff to brownish-black slip and matte black paint. Inside, concentric circles decorate the bottom, with multiple lines and bands encircling the body. Outside, groups of concentric circles with central discs decorate the mid-body, with bands of lines around the upper and lower body. The base and handles are painted, with additional lines, strokes, and concentric circles beneath the base.
The location and find date of the object is not recorded. It has been suggested that it may have come from Paleapaphos-Skales.
The bowl 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 17946:0038) joining objects from the SCE in the wider Cyprus collection.