
Archaic II
White Painted Amphora
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
Date
600 - 475 BC
Accession No.
1978,0719.5
Collection
British Museum
Provenance
- Mina, al- (?)