
Archaic I
"Bichrome Ware Bullseye Jug"
Large pottery jug in Bichrome ware; wheel-made; globular body on a ring base, junction with body defined with a groove; wide cylindrical neck flaring slightly to a trefoil mouth; double-rib handle from shoulder to rim; buff-pink clay and cream-white slip, decorated in black and red paint; on each side of the body, a broad red circular band frames a series of concentric circles surrounding a large bull's eye motif; large concentric circles below the handle and spout; surface calcinated in places. Dimensions: Height: 28.20 centimetres Object Type: jug Ware: Bichrome Ware (Bichrome IV (?)) Techniques: painted; wheel-made
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Decoration
- PaintedPainted in two colours
- Motif
- Concentric circles
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- probablyIron AgeCypro-ArchaicCypro-Archaic I
- Date
- 750 - 550 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
- Findspot
- Gastria
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