White Painted Oinochoe

White Painted Oinochoe

Description:

Large pottery oinochoe or jug in White Painted ware; wheel-made; globular body on a small foot; short conical neck with trefoil mouth; arched handle from shoulder to rim; buff clay and drab slip, decorated in dull dark brown paint: on each side are two large spirals, bordered by thick bands, converging in a central bull's-eye motif; narrow rings around the neck, stripe down the handle with a cross-bar at the top; lip is also painted.


Dimensions: Height: 18.50 centimetres


Object Type: oinochoe


Ware: White Painted Ware


Series: White Painted V


Techniques: painted; slipped; wheel-made

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 450 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1894,1101.545