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White Painted Bichrome Dish, Geometric II Cypriot dish and plate
White Painted Bichrome Dish, Geometric II Cypriot, c. 900–750 BC. British Museum, 1880,0710.103.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Geometric II

White Painted Bichrome Dish

Pottery dish in White Painted/Bichrome ware; wheel-made;shallow body with convex sides on a low ring base; slightly everted rim; pair of opposing lug handles, triangular shaped with, pierced at the apex with small projects at each side. Made of orange clay with a buff slip and decorated with red to purple and brown paint: on the exterior are red-purple concentric bands of varying widths (including within the area of the ring base), on the interior are brown concentric bands. Surface chipped and worn in many places, and the slip is missing over a large portion of the interior. Dimensions: Diameter: 17.50 centimetres; Height: 5 centimetres Object Type: dish Ware: White Painted Ware; Bichrome Ware Series: White Painted III; Bichrome III Techniques: painted; pierced; slipped; wheel-made

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Iron Age)
Shape
Dish and plate
Decoration techniques
Painted, PaintedPainted in two colours
Material
Clay
Period
probablyIron AgeCypro-Geometric
Date
900 - 750 BC

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Amathus (?)
  • Limassol (city) (?)

Identifiers

Accession no.
1880,0710.103, British Museum · Museum record

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