White Painted Amphora
Description: | Pottery jar (amphora) in White Painted ware; wheel-made; biconical body on a low ring base; cylindrical neck with a horizontal everted; pair of opposing three-ribbed handles. Made of orange-buff clay, decorated with black painted decoration: concentric circles around the neck, and colunms of the same down the body; broad bands around the body and neck. Surface worn and accreted in places. Dimensions: Height: 42.20 centimetres Object Type: jar; amphora Ware: White Painted Ware Series: White Painted V Techniques: painted; wheel-made |
Period: | Archaic II |
Date: | 600 - 475 BC |
Collection: | British Museum |
Provenance: | Mina, al- (?) |
Accession Number: | 1978,0719.5 |