Archaic I
Bichrome III-IV ware amphora
Earthenware with bichrome (black and red) slip paint 71.5 cm
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Decoration
- PaintedPainted in two colours
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- probablyIron AgeCypro-Archaic
- Date
- 750 - 700 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
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