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White Painted Oinochoe, Archaic II Cypriot trefoil-mouthed jug, White Painted V
White Painted Oinochoe, Archaic II Cypriot, White Painted V, c. 600–450 BC. British Museum, 1894,1101.306.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Archaic II

White Painted Oinochoe

Pottery oinochoe in White Painted ware; wheel-made; globular body on a ring base; narrow concave (almost inverse biconical) neck with a trefoil mouth; vertical arching handle from shoulder to rim; buff clay and slip, decorated in brown-purple paint: vertical concentric circles with central bull's-eye motif on the sides, intersected at the shoulder with a horizontal band of broad and fine parallel lines; straight and wavy bands around the neck; pair of eyes on the mouth; single bird in panel below mouth; ladder motif on the handle; surface abraded and encrusted in places. Dimensions: Height: 20.60 centimetres Object Type: oinochoe Ware: White Painted Ware Series: White Painted V Techniques: slipped; painted; wheel-made

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Iron Age)White Painted V (Iron Age)
Shape
JugTrefoil-mouthed jug
Decoration
Painted
Material
Clay
Period
probablyIron AgeCypro-ArchaicCypro-Archaic II
Date
600 - 450 BC
Findspot
Amathus

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Amathus

Identifiers

Accession no.
1894,1101.306, British Museum · Museum record

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