Bichrome Bull's Eye Jug

Bichrome Bull's Eye Jug

Description:

Pottery jug in Bichrome ware; slightly depressed globular body ona ring base; short conical neck with a trefoil mouth; doubled-ribbed handle arching from shoulder to above the rim, Made of buff clay decorated with black and red paint: concentric circiles on each side of body with a central bull's eye motif; arrow-motif under spout.


Dimensions: Height: 19.50 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Techniques: painted

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 475 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1894,1101.101