
Archaic I
Bichrome Barrel Juglet
Small pottery barrel-shaped or juglet in Bichrome III ware; wheel-made; barrel-shaped body with pointed bosses (or 'nipples') on each of the flattened ends; narrow neck flaring upwards to a trumpt mouth; thin handle arching from shoulder to neck; buff clay and reddish-buff slip, decorated in black and purple paint: concentric bands around the body and neck, the bosses are painted in with a bull's-eye motif. Dimensions: Height: 10.60 centimetres Object Type: lekythos; juglet Ware: Bichrome Ware Series: Bichrome III Techniques: slipped; painted; wheel-made
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Shape
- JugBarrel jug
- Decoration
- PaintedPainted in two colours
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- probablyIron AgeCypro-GeometricCypro-Geometric III
- Date
- 800 - 600 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
- Findspot
- Amathus
Also recorded as
A museum record
British Museum, 1894,1101.394 (“lekythos; juglet”)From Amathus, BM Tomb 286
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