Free Field White Painted Jar, Archaic I Cypriot — Free Field White Painted Jar, Archaic I Cypriot, c. 750–600 BC. Kourion Museum.© Kourion Museum

Archaic I

Free Field White Painted Jar

Cypro-Archaic white painted jar with free field motifs. The jars body is almost devoid of designs with its neck suddenly being filled with complex geometric designs such as cross-hatching. Two free field birds in identical style can be scene on the neck at the front.

Classification

Object type: Pottery vessel
Ware: White Painted ware (Iron Age)
Shape: Jar
Style: Free-Field Style
Decoration: Painted
Motifs: Bird, Lattice and checkerboard
Material: Clay
Period: Iron AgeCypro-Archaic
Date: 750 - 600 BC
Place of production: Cyprus

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