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Object Type
Museum number: 1894,1101.14
Description: Pottery plate in Black Slip Bichrome II ware; wheel-made; shallow body with obliquely ribbed exterior wall; pair of opposing wishbone handles, one now missing except for the stumps; broad ring base running around the edge of the underside; buff clay and slip, except on the exterior walls which are covered in black paint; brown and purple painted decoration: on the underside, lattice-triangles and zig-zags framed by parallel lines around a central arrangement of concentric circles, row of short strokes on the ring base; the interior consists of two series of narrow brown bands divided by a broader band in purple.
Cultures/periods: Cypro-Geometric II; Cypro-Geometric III
Production date: 950BC-750BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Amathus, Site B, tomb 14
Materials
Ware: Black Slip Ware; Bichrome Ware
Type series: Black Slip II; Bichrome II
Technique: painted; slipped; wheel-made
Dimensions: Diameter: 22 centimetres (max)
Curator's comments: The decoration and technique is a composite of Black Slip and Bichrome ware (see SCE IV/2, 76-7).
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (C744); Murray, Smith and Walters 1900 / Excavations in Cyprus (p. 116 (Site B)); SCE IV/2 / The Swedish Cyprus Expedition. Vol. IV. Part 2. The Cypro-Geometric, Cypro-Archaic and Cypro-Classical periods. (Fig. XVI,16)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Funder name
Acquisition date: 1894
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1894,1101.14

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