
Archaic I
Bichrome Red Amphora
Pottery amphora (jar) in Bichrome Red ware; wheel-made; ovoid body on a disc base; wide cylindircal neck with a thick, rounded rim; pair of small vertical loop handles on the shoulder of the vessel. Made of buff clay covered with a lustrou slip, fired red, decorated with black and white paid: bands around the body, and white dots round base of neck. Dimensions: Height: 10.80 centimetres Object Type: amphora Ware: Bichrome Red Ware Series: Bichrome Red I Techniques: slipped; painted; wheel-made
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Decoration
- PaintedPainted in two colours
- Motif
- Bands and lines
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- probablyIron AgeCypro-Archaic
- Date
- 750 - 600 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
- Findspot
- Palaepaphos
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