amphora

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Object Type
Museum number: 1894,1101.210
Description: Small pottery amphora in Bichrome ware; ovoid-globular body on a flat, slightly concave base; concave neck and flaring everted rim (part missing); pair of opposing horizontal loop handles; buff clay and slip, decorated in black, purple and yellow paint: bands on the body and a zig-zag band on the neck; surface worn.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 600BC-450BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Amathus, Site E, tomb 83
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; slipped; wheel-made
Dimensions: Diameter: 4.40 centimetres (mouth); Height: 10.30 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (C957); Murray, Smith and Walters 1900 / Excavations in Cyprus (p.119, Tomb 83); CVA British Museum 9 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 17, British Museum 9 (BM IIC, c, pl. 19,4)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Funder name
Acquisition date: 1894
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1894,1101.210

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