White Painted Oinochoe

White Painted Oinochoe

Description:

Pottery oinochoe or jug in White Painted ware; globular-biconical body on a flat base with a wide neck and trefoil mouth; reddish-orange clay and slip decorated in black paint with bands around the neck and a plant motif flanked by swastikas below the spout, a pair of eyes on the mouth; handle lost.


Dimensions: Height: 15.80 centimetres


Object Type: oinochoe; jug


Ware: White Painted Ware (WP III)


Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Period:

Geometric II

Date:

900 - 750 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1905,1206.8