Bichrome Amphora

Bichrome Amphora

Description:

Pottery amphora in Bichrome ware; wheel-made; piriform-ovoid body on a ring base; wide shoulder with a rounded rim; pair of opposing handles arching from shoulder to rim; buff clay and cream-white slip, decorated in black and red-purple paint: broad and narrow bands around the body, groups of concentric circles on the shoulder and neck.


Dimensions: Height: 39 centimetres


Object Type: amphora


Ware: Bichrome Ware (BiCh III-IV)


Techniques: painted; wheel-made

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Kourion

Accession Number:

1982,0729.445