amphora
- Museum number
- 1894,1101.304
- Description
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Pottery amphora in Bichrome/Bichrome Red Ware ware; wheel-made; globular-biconical body on a ring base; short cylindrical neck with a thick, everted rim (squared section); pair of opposing lopp handles. Made of fairly coarse buff clay, surface fired black with large white lattice pattern painted between the handles and alternating black and white dots on a reserved band on white at the junction of the body and neck. The decoration is better preserved on the very similar GR 1894,11-1.311 from the same tomb.
- Production date
- 600 BC-475 BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 21.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- This variant of Bichrome/Bichrome Red inverts the usual technique of these related wares by firing the ground dark and decoraitng the body with one or more lighter colours by way of contrast.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1894
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1894,1101.304
