Bichrome Bird Jar

Bichrome Bird Jar

Description:

Pottery jar in Bichrome ware; wheel-made; globular body, tapering inwards to a ring base; annular neck with a flat disck rim; pair of opposing triple-rim handles; made of buff clay decorated with sedecorated on the shoulder with birds within geometric borders.


Dimensions: Height: 19.05 centimetres


Object Type: jar


Ware: Bichrome Ware (BiCh IV)


Techniques: wheel-made; painted

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1876,0909.31