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Cypriot clay amphora

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An image of Vessel. Amphora. Production Place: Cyprus. Find Spot: Vounous Cyprus; Tomb 154. Clay, buff surface, height 0.267 m, width 0.151 m, 2400 to 2201 B.C. Early Cypriot I. Bronze Age.

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Vessel. Amphora. Production Place: Cyprus. Find Spot: Vounous Cyprus; Tomb 154. Clay, buff surface, height 0.267 m, width 0.151 m, 2400 to 2201 B.C. Early Cypriot I. Bronze Age.

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  • Accession Number: GR.5s.1939
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/45.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Photographer name: Katie Young
  • Image height: 1025 pixels
  • Image width: 754 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 493.62kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 45/1

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amphora amphorae Ancient Greece antiquity BC Bronze Age clay Cypriot Cyprus Early Cypriot Fitz_ANT handled handles lugged lugs two handled two-handled vessel Vounous

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rgb(192,146,96), rgb(239,239,239), rgb(128,92,57), rgb(222,186,133), rgb(188,158,123), rgb(195,191,186), rgb(235,217,181), rgb(178,177,175), rgb(226,180,108), rgb(132,125,116), rgb(124,116,98)

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