Geometric I
White Painted Amphoriskos
Pottery amphoriskos in White Painted ware; wheel-made; ovoid-piriform body on a low pedestal base (hollow underneath) with a stepped profile; wide cylindrical neck with a flat everted rim; vertical strap handles from shoulder to rim; orange-buff clay with a cream slip, decorated in matt black-brown paint: parallel bands on the body and neck and inside below the rim, solid foot, ladder pattern on the handles; slip and paint eroded in many places. Dimensions: Height: 10.20 centimetres Object Type: amphoriskos Ware: White Painted Ware (WP I) Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Decoration
- Painted
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- probablyIron AgeCypro-Geometric
- Date
- 1050 - 900 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
- Findspot
- Kourion
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