amphora

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Object Type
Museum number: 1894,1101.304
Description: 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.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 600 BC-475 BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Amathus, Site E, tomb 106
Materials
Ware: Bichrome Ware; Bichrome Red Ware
Type series: Bichrome V; Bichrome Red II
Technique
Dimensions: 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 name
Funder name
Acquisition date: 1894
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1894,1101.304

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