Archaic II
Bichrome Red Amphora
Pottery jar (amphora) in Bichrome/Bichrome Red ware; wheel-made; globular-biconical body on a ring base; short neck, flaring outwards from the shoulder with a thick, rounded rim; pair of opposing loop handles at mid-body. Made of fairly coarse buff clay, decorated with brown and white paint: the body surface has been fired an orange-red colour, with horizontal bands and a alrge white lattice patter; the neck surface has been fired white, and decorated with rows of bands, white dots, and large concentric circles on the neck; handles painted solid brown. Dimensions: Height: 26.50 centimetres Object Type: jar Ware: Bichrome Ware; Bichrome Red Ware Series: Bichrome V; Bichrome Red II Techniques: painted; slipped
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Decoration
- PaintedPainted in two colours
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- probablyIron AgeCypro-ArchaicCypro-Archaic II
- Date
- 600 - 475 BC
- Findspot
- Amathus
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A museum record
British Museum, 1894,1101.312 (“jar”)From Amathus, BM Tomb 106
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