Bichrome Ware Jar

Bichrome Ware Jar

Description:

Pottery jar (amphora) in Bichrome Ware; wheel-made; biconical body on a ring base; wide neck splaying outwards, with a thick rounded rim; pair of opposing horizontal handles at the shoulder. Made of buff clay, ground surface fired reddish-brown (with some reserved white bands) and with added white paint: dots around the junciton of neck, thick wavy line around the belly. Surface worn in places.


Dimensions: Height: 22 centimetres


Object Type: jar


Ware: Bichrome Ware; Bichrome Red Ware


Series: Bichrome V; Bichrome Red II


Techniques: wheel-made; painted

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 475 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1894,1101.528