White Painted V Amphora - image 1

Middle Bronze Age III

White Painted V Amphora

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

Date

1750 - 1550 BC

Accession No.

1897,0401.1299

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Enkomi