Geometric I

Black Slip Amphora

Pottery amphora in Black Slip ware; wheel-made; ovoid body on a low conical foot (concave underneath); wide concave neck and everted rim with chamfered edges; pair of opposing twisted handles; coarse buff-cream clay with a thin matt black slip, rather shallow vertical fluting on body beneath a band of double ridge around the shoulder; surface of vase is calcinated and slip very abraded, foot chipped; shape of rim is distorted, possibly from firing. Dimensions: Diameter: 10 centimetres; Height: 23.60 centimetres Object Type: amphora Ware: Black Slip Ware Series: Black Slip I Techniques: slipped; twisted; wheel-made