
Archaic I
Bichrome Red Skyphos Bowl
Pottery bowl (skyphos) in Bichrome Red ware; wheel-made; deep body on a raised base; concave neck; pair of opposing near-horizontal handles; made of dark orange clay with a cream slip and black and buff painted decoration: lattice band around the neck; panels on body (rosettes, quatrefoils and groups of vertical lines). Dimensions: Diameter: 10.40 centimetres Object Type: bowl; skyphos Ware: Bichrome Red Ware (BiChRed I) Techniques: painted; slipped; wheel-made
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Decoration
- PaintedPainted in two colours
- Motifs
- Lattice and checkerboard, Rosette
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- probablyIron AgeCypro-Archaic
- Date
- 750 - 600 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
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