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Zoomorphic Handle Bowl, Archaic I Cypriot, Black-on-Red II
Zoomorphic Handle Bowl, Archaic I Cypriot, Black-on-Red II, c. 750–600 BC. British Museum, 1883,0106.109.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Archaic I

Zoomorphic Handle Bowl

Large pottery bowl in Black-on-Red ware with zoomorphic handles; deep, slightly carinated body on a high ring base; slight concavity on the plain rim; two opposing handles, double-arched with a ram's head in the middle; buff-pink fabric and dark red slip (worn in many places), decorated in black paint: banded decoration on the exterior and inside just below the rim, handles also painted; the body of the vase has been distorted in firing. Dimensions: Diameter: 30.50 centimetres; Height: 11.50 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: Black-On-Red Ware Series: Black-on-Red II Techniques: painted; slipped; wheel-made

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Black-on-Red wareBlack-on-Red II (IV)
Shape
Bowl
Decoration techniques
Painted, Relief and appliedModelled figures and attachments
Material
Clay
Period
probablyIron AgeCypro-Archaic
Date
750 - 600 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
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Achna

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Achna

Identifiers

Accession no.
1883,0106.109, British Museum · Museum record

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