amphora

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Object Type: amphora
Museum number: 1894,1101.309
Description: Pottery amphora in Bichrome V ware (Polychrome variety); globular-ovoid body on a low ring base; tall, wide neck splaying upwards to an everted, rolled rim; pair of opposing horizontal loop handles; cream-buff clay and slip, decorated in brown to purple and red paint in a dense 'close' style of parallel bands and registers: between the handles are hatched or filled triangles, lozenges or panels, below is a frieze of lotus calices, above on the shoulder narrower bands of tongue-like semi-circles, white dots on black, leaves, hatched or solid triangles, on the neck large rosettes in panels and other vegetal motifs, under the handles are five vertical rows of chevrons in black or purple and smaller panels with leaves, lattice motifs and oblongs; vase repaired from fragments and much restored in places.
Cultures/periods: Cypro-Archaic II
Production date: 600BC-475BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Turner Bequest Excavations, Amathus
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Amathus (historic), Site E, tomb 106
Materials: pottery
Ware: Bichrome Ware (BiCh V (Polychrome variety))
Technique: slipped; painted; wheel-made
Dimensions: Height: 25.30 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (C849); SCE IV/2 / The Swedish Cyprus Expedition. Vol. IV. Part 2. The Cypro-Geometric, Cypro-Archaic and Cypro-Classical periods. (Fig. L, 12); Murray, Smith and Walters 1900 / Excavations in Cyprus (p.120 (Tomb 106); Fig.151,1)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name: From: Turner Bequest Excavations, Amathus
Funder name: Funded by: Emma Tourner Turner (bequest)
Acquisition date: 1894
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1894,1101.309

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