Bichrome Painted Juglet

Bichrome Painted Juglet

Description:

Pottery juglet in Bichrome Ware; wheel-made; globular body; narrow concave neck with ridge flaring to a mushroom-shaped lip; small handle arching from shoulder to neck ridge; buff clay and slip, decorated in black and purple paint: bull's-eye motif enclosed within a circular band on each side; vertical column of four groups of concentric circles below the neck, with a single group under the handle; horizontal bands around the neck.


Dimensions: Height: 11.43 centimetres


Object Type: juglet


Ware: Bichrome Ware (Bichrome IV)


Techniques: wheel-made; slipped; painted

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1894,1101.391