Archaic I
Bichrome Dish
bichrome dish with use of swastika and cross hatching motifs
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Shape
- Dish and plate
- Decoration techniques
- Painted, PaintedPainted in two colours
- Motifs
- Swastika, Lattice and checkerboard
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- probablyIron AgeCypro-Archaic
- Date
- 750 - 600 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
Collection
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