White Painted Amphora

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