Archaic II
White Painted Amphora
Pottery amphora with straight neck in a variant of White Painted/ Bichrome ware; wheelmade; globular-ovoid body on a rounded ring base; short conical neck with a thick swelling rim; pair of opposing loop handles; fairly coarse cream-buff clay covered with a similar slip, over which has been added a dark brown slip on body, with added white details: lattice pattern framed by horizontal bands between the handles, with a row of small dots at the junction of neck and body, narrow bands on the neck and rim; surface very worn and encrusted; body dented in places, probably during firing. Dimensions: Height: 28.50 centimetres Object Type: amphora Ware: White Painted Ware (WP V (variant)) Techniques: painted; slipped; wheel-made
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Decoration
- Painted
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- probablyIron AgeCypro-ArchaicCypro-Archaic II
- Date
- 600 - 475 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
- Findspot
- Amathus
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British Museum, 1894,1101.311 (“amphora”)From Amathus, BM Tomb 106
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