Bichrome Ware Amphora

Bichrome Ware Amphora

Description:

Pottery amphora in Bichrome ware; wheel-made; ovoid body on a ring base; wide cylinidrical neck with a thick, rolled rim; pair of large opposing vertical loop handles; made of buff clay with similar slip, decorated with brown and purple painted decoration: alternating branch and spear motifs on body; lozenges on the neck; parallel bands on the neck and lower body.


Dimensions: Height: 24 centimetres


Object Type: amphora


Ware: Bichrome Ware


Series: Bichrome V


Techniques: painted; slipped; wheel-made

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 475 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1894,1101.248