Geometric II
White Painted Amphora
Pottery amphora in White Painted ware; wheel-made; ovoid-biconical body on a high splaying foot; wide neck, flaring outwards to an everted rim, slightly chamfered on the inside surface; sinuous strap handles from shoulder to rim; buff clay with small white inclusions, and similar slip, decorated in matt black-purple paint: bands on the body, junction of shoulder and neck and inside the rim, ladder pattern on the handles, groups of small triangles on the rim, lower part of body and foot is in solid black. Dimensions: Height: 15.80 centimetres Object Type: amphora Ware: White Painted Ware (WP III) Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Decoration
- Painted
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- probablyIron AgeCypro-Geometric
- Date
- 900 - 750 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
- Findspot
- Kourion
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