Archaic II
Bichrome Oinochoe
Pottery oinochoe or jug in Bichrome ware; globular-ovoid body on a low base; short neck and trefoil mouth; double-rib handle from shoulder to rim; buff slip decorated with purple-brown and red painted decoration: parallel bands intersecting with concentrics on the body, eyes on the trefoil spout; lotus motif flanked by arrows on the shoulder. Dimensions: Height: 22 centimetres Object Type: oinochoe; jug Ware: White Painted Ware (?); Bichrome Ware (?) Techniques: slipped; painted; wheel-made
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Decoration techniques
- Painted, PaintedPainted in two colours
- Motifs
- Bands and lines, Concentric circles, Lotus, Arrows
- Material
- Clay
- Place of production
- Cyprus
- Findspot
- Amathus
- Date
- 600 - 450 BC
Also recorded as
A museum record
British Museum, 1894,1101.527 (“oinochoe; jug”)From Amathus, BM Tomb 106
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