White Painted Amphoriskos

White Painted Amphoriskos

Description:

Pottery amphoriskos in White Painted ware; wheel-made; globular-biconical body on a conical foot; tall cylindrical neck flaring to an everted rim; pair of opposing loop handles; buff clay and buff-cream slip, decorated in dull black-brown paint: parallel bands and solid blocks of paint on the body, wavy line between the handles, latticed triangles on the shoulder.


Dimensions: Height: 17.30 centimetres


Object Type: jar; amphoriskos


Ware: White Painted Ware


Series: White Painted I


Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Period:

Late Bronze Age III

Date:

1100 - 1000 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Kourion

Accession Number:

1982,0729.319