
Archaic I
Bichrome Aryballos Flask
Pottery aryballos or flask in Bichrome ware; globular body with slightly concave, disc base; concave neck with central ridge and flaring, flat rim; narrow mouth; vertical strap handle from shoulder to ridge; buff clay with thick cream-white slip; decorated in black-purple and red paint; on each side of the handle, three vertical concentric red bands in frame a smaller set of concentric lines in the middle; three similar concentrics in a vertical line below the neck; black parallel lines on the neck with a solid black band on the handle; red-purple paint on and beneath the rim. Dimensions: Height: 10.50 centimetres check Object Type: aryballos; flask Ware: Bichrome Ware (Bichrome IV) Techniques: painted; slipped; wheel-made
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Decoration
- PaintedPainted in two colours
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- probablyIron AgeCypro-Archaic
- Date
- 750 - 600 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
- Findspot
- Kourion
Also recorded as
A museum record
British Museum, 1896,0201.288 (“aryballos; flask”)From Kourion, BM Tomb 15
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