?Cypriot Yortan (or Cypriot) triple vessel.: Early Bronze Age III (2700-2500 BC)

 Black Polished Ware.   Good condition with some slip eroded, but was in a house fire.

Probably a triple kernos, for three types of food offering. A type common from Yortan culture (North East Turkey, near Troy), but also similar to some Cypriot examples from slightly later (EC iii-MC i), possibly imitating Yortan originals. See 116A 118

Three joined but not internally connected, globular vessels with slightly splayed, short vertical rims, and tall, looped, strap handle joining one rim to opposite join. Black, burnished slip with incised patterns filled with lime: on each, three vertical panels defined by double lines, divided in two by double lines, each half containing diagonal, hatched, triple lines; except the outer panel of one vessel, is replaced by inverted V of triple lines. Over the handle, linked, stretched diamonds each divided 3x3.Cf: Turhan 1982 p.104, 46. pl.XV (238); Metropolitan Museum no. 62.65.2 ; British Museum no. 1921,1220.66 (Yortan); Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Sevres pl.7 (27) Metropolitan Mus. no. 74.51.1209 (Cypriot)