Bichrome Aryballos

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