bowl

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Object Type: bowl
Museum number: 1894,1101.542
Description: Pottery bowl in Bichrome/Bichrome Red ware; wheel-made; conical body on a flat base; inturning neck with a thick chamfered rim; pair of opposing horizontal ribbon handles; pink-buff clay, with he surface fired to a red to black colour, decorated with white paint: crudely applied lattices on the neck on the outside, on the interior bands of fine parallel lines around a central group of roughly applied dots in white paint, groups of short parallel strokes on the rim, mostly worn away; vase chipped in places, surface worn.
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 D, Tomb 291
Materials: pottery
Ware: Bichrome Red Ware; Bichrome Ware
Type series: Bichrome Red II
Technique: painted; wheel-made; slipped
Dimensions: Diameter: 22 centimetres; Height: 7.80 centimetres
Curator's comments: See SCE IV/2, fig. LIII no. 5 for a parallel. This variant form inverts the technique usually found in Bichrome/Bichrome Red by creating a dark ground against which the added painted decoration is contrasted.
Bibliographic references: Murray, Smith and Walters 1900 / Excavations in Cyprus (p.126, Tomb 291); CVA British Museum 9 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 17, British Museum 9 (BM IIC, c, pl. 17,16); SCE IV/2 / The Swedish Cyprus Expedition. Vol. IV. Part 2. The Cypro-Geometric, Cypro-Archaic and Cypro-Classical periods. (Fig. LIII, 5)
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: 1894,1101.542

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