Black Slip Amphora

Black Slip Amphora

Description:

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

Period:

Geometric I

Date:

1050 - 900 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Kourion

Accession Number:

1982,0729.377