Pastoral Style Bell Krater

Pastoral Style Bell Krater

Description:

Pottery Pastoral Style bell krater; wheel-made; reddish brown painted decoration of a spotted bull on one side and a pair of antithetic sphinxes flanking a tree on the other, bands above and below; mended from sherds and partially restored.


Dimensions: Diameter: 36.60 centimetres; Height: 41 centimetres; Weight: 3 kilograms; Width: 40.50 centimetres


Object Type: krater


Ware: White Painted Wheel-made Ware


Series: Pastoral Style; White Painted Wheel-made III


Techniques: wheel-made; painted

Period:

Late Bronze Age II

Date:

1250 - 1200 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Enkomi

Accession Number:

1897,0401.1260