Bichrome Painted Jar

Bichrome Painted Jar

Description:

Small pottery jar or tumbler (?); wheel-made; convex body on a flat base; irregular everted rim, slightly chamfered edge (perhaps added separately); pink-buff clay and slip, decorated in red and black paint: parallel bands on the body; surface very worn.


Dimensions: Diameter: 4.90 centimetres mouth ; Height: 5.60 centimetres


Object Type: jar


Ware: Bichrome Ware (Bichrome V)


Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 475 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1894,1101.205