
Archaic
Free-field bichrome jug with image of an Ibis bird and reeds
Free-field bichrome jug with image of an Ibis bird and reeds
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Shape
- Jug
- Style
- Free-Field Style
- Decoration techniques
- Painted, PaintedPainted in two colours
- Motifs
- Bird, Other plants and flowers
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- probablyIron AgeCypro-Archaic
- Date
- 750 - 475 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
- Findspot
- Sinda
Collection
Provenance
- From Cyprus, Sinda Tomb in Famagusta
Identifiers
- Accession no.
- AN1969.645, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology · Museum record
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