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Jug of the so called "South Coast Red-Polished Ware", with a flat base and pear-shaped body. The vase has two tall cylindrical necks (twin-necked) joined with a basket-shaped handle and two horizontal cylindrical bars. At the base of the necks there are small handles. Modelled birds, placed opposed, adorn the bars between the necks. The surface of the vase is decorated with incised linear and curvilinear motifs, zigzags, and lozenges, filled with white substance (kaolin). The wings and the tail of birds are rendered with incised lines.
The "South Coast Red Polished Ware” is a subgroup of the "Red Polished Ware” and is dated to the Early Cypriot I period (2500-2300 BC). It is probably the product of a specialised pottery workshops in southern Cyprus (and specifically in the area around Limassol, Sotira and Erimi). It includes mainly large-size jugs, as well as amphora-shaped and kalathos-shaped vases, conical bowls and large flasks. The surface of the vases is usually covered with reddish-brown paint and incised decoration of rectilinear and curvilinear motifs, filled with white substance (kaolin). The rich decoration is frequently combined with modelled figural attachments (animal and bird busts) placed on the horizontal bars between the necks. The functional significance of the twin-necked jugs is unclear but since most of them were found in graves, it is possible that they were used exclusively for burial and cult rituals.
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