bowl
- Museum number
- 1869,0604.41
- Description
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Pottery bowl (skyphos) in Bichrome ware; wheel-made; deep body on a disc base; pair of opposing handles; made of cream-buff clay and slip decorated with red and black paint: purple bands around the body, groups of vertical wavy lines on the body at intervals, painted red inside the vessel; complete but repaired from several large fragments.
- Production date
- 750 BC-600 BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 11 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- For parallels see SCE IV/2, fig. XXX, 11 (WP IV) and fig. XLVIII, 11 (Bichrome V). See also the discussion by Coldstream (1979, 265, no. 23) of the type in the content of Greek Late Geometric imports and their local imitations.
Bibliography:
Coldstream J.N. 1979, 'Geometric skyphoi in Cyprus', RDAC, 254-69.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1869
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1869,0604.41