White Painted V Amphora

White Painted V Amphora

Description:

Pottery White Painted V amphora; hand-made; two vertical handles with projections on shoulder; cream slip and red-brown paint; decorated with horizontal bands framing sets of vertical lines at top and bottom of neck framing hatched chevrons. Body decorated with multiple horizonatal and vertical lines and wavy lines. Interior rim with horizontal line and rim ticks. Two string holes through neck below rim.


Dimensions: Diameter: 16.50 centimetres; Height: 23.80 centimetres


Object Type: amphora


Ware: White Painted Ware


Series: White Painted V


Techniques: slipped; painted; handmade

Period:

Middle Bronze Age III

Date:

1750 - 1550 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Enkomi

Accession Number:

1897,0401.1299