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Cypriot ear-lug jar

Image attached to GR.5p.1939

An image of Vessel. Ear-lug jar. Production Place: Cyprus. Find Spot: Vounous Cyprus; Tomb 84. Clay, height 0.263 m, width, body, 0.148 m, 2400 to 2201 B.C. Late Chalcolithic - Early Cypriot I. Bronze Age.

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Vessel. Ear-lug jar. Production Place: Cyprus. Find Spot: Vounous Cyprus; Tomb 84. Clay, height 0.263 m, width, body, 0.148 m, 2400 to 2201 B.C. Late Chalcolithic - Early Cypriot I. Bronze Age.

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  • Accession Number: GR.5p.1939
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/32.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Photographer name: Amy Jugg
  • Image height: 1025 pixels
  • Image width: 803 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 459.48kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 32/1

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Ancient Greece antiquity BC black Bronze Age Chalcolithic clay Cypriot Cyprus ear lug jar Early Cypriot Fitz_ANT handled handles incised jar Late Chalcolithic linear lines lugged lugs striated striations two handled two-handled vessel Vounous

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