Bichrome Red Bowl

Bichrome Red Bowl

Description:

Pottery bowl in Bichrome-Red ware; wheel-made; hemispherical body, slightly carinated below, on a ring base; flat everted rim; yellow-buff clay with an orange-red slip, decorated in black and white paint: broad and narrow bands around the exterior body, black lines on the rim and on the inside; paint and slip eroded in many places, while the white paint has also faded considerably.


Dimensions: Diameter: 19.20 centimetres


Object Type: bowl


Ware: Bichrome Red Ware (Bichrome Red I (IV))


Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Kourion

Accession Number:

1982,0729.335