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Black Bichrome Wishbone Plate, Geometric II Cypriot, Black Slip Bichrome ware
Black Bichrome Wishbone Plate, Geometric II Cypriot, Black Slip Bichrome ware, c. 950–750 BC. British Museum, 1894,1101.14.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Geometric II

Black Bichrome Wishbone Plate

Pottery plate in Black Slip Bichrome II ware; wheel-made; shallow body with obliquely ribbed exterior wall; pair of opposing wishbone handles, one now missing except for the stumps; broad ring base running around the edge of the underside; buff clay and slip, except on the exterior walls which are covered in black paint; brown and purple painted decoration: on the underside, lattice-triangles and zig-zags framed by parallel lines around a central arrangement of concentric circles, row of short strokes on the ring base; the interior consists of two series of narrow brown bands divided by a broader band in purple. Dimensions: Diameter: 22 centimetres max Object Type: plate Ware: Black Slip Ware; Bichrome Ware Series: Black Slip II; Bichrome II Techniques: painted; slipped; wheel-made

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Black Slip ware (Iron Age)Black Slip Bichrome ware
Shape
Dish and plate
Decoration techniques
Painted, PaintedPainted in two colours
Material
Clay
Period
probablyIron AgeCypro-Geometric
Date
950 - 750 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Amathus

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Amathus

Identifiers

Accession no.
1894,1101.14, British Museum · Museum record

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