amphora

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Object Type
Museum number: 1894,1101.531
Description: Pottery amphora in Bichrome ware; wheel-made; ovoid body on a ring base; cylindrical neck with thick everted rim; pair of thick opposing loop handles; made of buff clay with reddish-buff slip decorated with black, purple and white paint: stylsed trees in panels on each side of the vase and under the handles; bands above and below the central panels; white wavy line around the shoulder; files of dots and triangles on the neck; file of oblique lines on the rim.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 600BC-450BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus, Amathus
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Amathus, Site E, tomb 106
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; slipped; wheel-made
Dimensions: Height: 23.50 centimetres
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Funder name
Acquisition date: 1894
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1894,1101.531

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