White Painted Amphora

White Painted Amphora

Description:

Pottery amphora in Proto White Painted/White Painted I ware; globular-biconical body on a narrow, splaying foot; two handles at oblique angles from body; wide conical neck with rounded rim; cream-buff clay and slip, decorated in matt black paint: parallel bands on the body with registers of wavy lines and cross-hatched triangles; surface worn in places.


Dimensions: Height: 15.10 centimetres


Object Type: jar; amphora


Ware: White Painted Ware (? WP I); Proto-White Painted (?)


Techniques: painted; wheel-made

Period:

Geometric I

Date:

1050 - 900 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Kourion

Accession Number:

1982,0729.314