Bichrome IV barrel-shaped Cypro-Phoenician jug with sacred tree, stags, crested birds, and lotus flowers
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Details
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Title
Bichrome IV barrel-shaped Cypro-Phoenician jug with sacred tree, stags, crested birds, and lotus flowers
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Associated people
Max Ohnefalsch-Richter (1850 - 1917) (excavator) -
Associated place
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Date
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Material and technique
ceramic
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Object type
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Dimensions
28.5 cm (height)
27.9 cm (width)
front to back 22.3 cm (depth) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1885.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 18 | Ancient Cyprus -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
AN1885.366
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Further reading
Gardner, P., Evans, A., Catalogue of the Greek Vases in the Ashmolean Museum, Museum Oxoniense, 1 (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1893), illus. 7 (No. 29)
Ohnefalsch-Richter, Max, Kypros, the Bible and Homer., 2 vols (Asher & Co., 13 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, 1893), 39 Plate LXXIV.5, 41 fig. 39, pl. LXXIV.5
Karageorghis, V. & Des Gagniers, J., Des Gagniers, J., La céramique Chypriote de style figure, Âge du fer (1050 BC-500 BC av. J.-C.), Biblioteca di antichità Cipriote (Consiglio nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per gli Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, Roma, 1974), 206-207, figs.
Piper, David, and Christopher White, Treasures of the Ashmolean Museum: An Illustrated Souvenir of the Collections, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1995), no. 16 on p. 21, illus. p. 21 fig. 16
Brown, Christopher, Ashmolean: Britain's First Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009), 54, illus. p.54
Katherine Wodehouse (general editor), The Ashmolean Museum Crossing Cultures Crossing Time (Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, 2014), p.121, illus. p.120
