amphora; jar

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Object Type: amphora; jar
Museum number: 1880,0710.77
Description: Pottery amphora (jar) in Bichrome Ware; wheel-made; ovoid body on a low ring base; tall splaying neck with a rolled everted rim; pair of opposing loop handles (oval section). Made of buff clay decorated with red and black paint: bands around the body and body, separating friezes of hatching and dots (on the neck and shoulder), wand intersecting lines on both sides of the body. Surface scratched and worn in places.
Cultures/periods: Cypro-Archaic II
Production date: 600 BC-475 BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector: Field Collection by: Colonel Falkland G.E Warren
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Amathus (historic), tomb (?); Excavated/Findspot: Limassol (city), tomb (?)
Materials: pottery
Ware: Bichrome Ware (BiCh V)
Technique: painted; wheel-made
Dimensions: Height: 21 centimetres
Curator's comments: SCE IV/2, fig. L-LI passim for the shape in Bichrome Ware and fig. LV, no. 3 for the shape in Bichrome Red II ware.
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (C967)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name: Donated by: Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville
Acquisition date: 1880
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1880,0710.77

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