Red Polished Amphora

Red Polished Amphora

Description:

Pottery storage jar ('amphora') in Red Polished III ware; handmade; globular body with a rounded base and a tall cylindrical neck with everted rim; pair of opposing horned handles from lower neck to shoulder; made of fairly fine buff clay covered with a polished orange-red slip, decorated with lime-filled incisions: zig-zags and bands composed of parallel lines on the body, hatched lozenges; surface worn in places.


Dimensions: Height: 33 centimetres


Object Type: jar


Ware: Red Polished Ware


Series: Red Polished III; Stewart Type (VII A2 p3)


Techniques: handmade; incised; slipped; polished

Period:

Early Bronze Age III

Date:

2100 - 1900 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Ayia Paraskevi

Accession Number:

1888,0927.29