A Cypriot bichrome ware pottery vessel with side-spout, the body with encircling bands and concentric circle motif above, the side-spout with rays and encircling line around the base, short cylindrical neck with handle, flat base -- 7 7/8in. (20cm.) high, Iron Age, early 1st millennium B.C.; a black-topped red polished ware jar, tapering to a flat circular base, with twin pierced handles, the body with an encircling band of incised zigzag decoration, above two further bands of hatched motif bordering horizontal lines, a short vertical band of similar decoration below each handle -- 5 7/8in. (15cm.) high, Early Bronze Age (2700-1900 B.C.); and a white painted ware jug, with spherical body, the cylindrical neck with round spout, single handle, the body decorated with brown linear patterns, including cross-hatched sections, a zigzag line around the neck, the rim with rays -- 6¼in. (15.8cm.) high, Middle Bronze Age (1900-1650 B.C.)

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A Cypriot bichrome ware pottery vessel with side-spout, the body with encircling bands and concentric circle motif above, the side-spout with rays and encircling line around the base, short cylindrical neck with handle, flat base -- 7 7/8in. (20cm.) high, Iron Age, early 1st millennium B.C.; a black-topped red polished ware jar, tapering to a flat circular base, with twin pierced handles, the body with an encircling band of incised zigzag decoration, above two further bands of hatched motif bordering horizontal lines, a short vertical band of similar decoration below each handle -- 5 7/8in. (15cm.) high, Early Bronze Age (2700-1900 B.C.); and a white painted ware jug, with spherical body, the cylindrical neck with round spout, single handle, the body decorated with brown linear patterns, including cross-hatched sections, a zigzag line around the neck, the rim with rays -- 6¼in. (15.8cm.) high, Middle Bronze Age (1900-1650 B.C.)
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