Bichrome Red Bowl
Description: | Pottery bowl in Bichrome/Bichrome Red ware; wheel-made; conical body on a flat base; inturning neck with a thick chamfered rim; pair of opposing horizontal ribbon handles; pink-buff clay, with he surface fired to a red to black colour, decorated with white paint: crudely applied lattices on the neck on the outside, on the interior bands of fine parallel lines around a central group of roughly applied dots in white paint, groups of short parallel strokes on the rim, mostly worn away; vase chipped in places, surface worn. Dimensions: Diameter: 22 centimetres; Height: 7.80 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: Bichrome Red Ware; Bichrome Ware Series: Bichrome Red II Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped |
Period: | Archaic II |
Date: | 600 - 475 BC |
Collection: | British Museum |
Provenance: | Amathus |
Accession Number: | 1894,1101.542 |