Bichrome Aryballos
Description: | Pottery aryballos or juglet in Bichrome ware; wheel-made; globular body on a flat base; narrow concave neck with ridge, flaring to a mushroom-shaped lip; buff clay and deep buff slip, decorated with black, purple and red paint: vertical concentric circles on the sides, bands around the neck; solid mouth and handle. Dimensions: Height: 10 centimetres Object Type: aryballos; juglet Ware: Bichrome Ware (Bichrome IV) Techniques: slipped; painted; wheel-made |
Period: | Archaic I |
Date: | 750 - 600 BC |
Collection: | British Museum |
Provenance: | Amathus |
Accession Number: | 1894,1101.392 |