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Bichrome Red Bowl, Archaic I Cypriot, Bichrome Red I
Bichrome Red Bowl, Archaic I Cypriot, Bichrome Red I, c. 750–600 BC. British Museum, 1982,0729.335.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Archaic I

Bichrome Red Bowl

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

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Bichrome Red wareBichrome Red I (IV)
Shape
Bowl
Decoration
PaintedPainted in two colours
Motif
Bands and lines
Material
Clay
Period
probablyIron AgeCypro-Archaic
Date
750 - 600 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Kourion

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Kourion

Identifiers

Accession no.
1982,0729.335, British Museum · Museum record

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