A CYPRIOT BLACK-ON-RED WARE POTTERY BOWL, the exterior decorated with encircling lines and two bands of concentric circles, further lines on interior, the bowl with short vertical sides and twin loop handles, on ring foot, repaired with restoration -- 7½ in. (19 cm.) across handles, early 1st millennium B.C.; a red and black polished ware jar, the round body with narrow everted rim -- 3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high, end of 3rd millennium B.C.; a red-on-black painted ware pottery jar, the rounded body decorated with vertical bands of eleven vertical lines, the chipped rim pierced for suspension at either side -- 4.7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) high, first half of 2nd millennium B.C.; and a group including a blue glazed composition shabti, damaged -- 4.1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) high, Ptolemaic, 4th-1st Century B.C.; and two tribal figures -- 5.3/8 in. (13.6 cm.) high (8)

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A CYPRIOT BLACK-ON-RED WARE POTTERY BOWL, the exterior decorated with encircling lines and two bands of concentric circles, further lines on interior, the bowl with short vertical sides and twin loop handles, on ring foot, repaired with restoration -- 7½ in. (19 cm.) across handles, early 1st millennium B.C.; a red and black polished ware jar, the round body with narrow everted rim -- 3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high, end of 3rd millennium B.C.; a red-on-black painted ware pottery jar, the rounded body decorated with vertical bands of eleven vertical lines, the chipped rim pierced for suspension at either side -- 4.7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) high, first half of 2nd millennium B.C.; and a group including a blue glazed composition shabti, damaged -- 4.1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) high, Ptolemaic, 4th-1st Century B.C.; and two tribal figures -- 5.3/8 in. (13.6 cm.) high (8)

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