Bichrome Amphora

Bichrome Amphora

Description:

Pottery jar (amphora) in Bichrome ware; wheelmade; ovoid body on a ring base; narrow neck; made of buff clay decorated with black and purple painted decoration: lattice-pattern on body and horizontal bands above and below.


Dimensions: Height: 19.70 centimetres


Object Type: amphora


Ware: Bichrome Ware


Techniques: painted; slipped

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 475 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1894,1101.739