amphora

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Object Type: amphora
Museum number: 1894,1101.739
Description: Pottery jar (amphora) in Bichrome ware; wheelmade; ovoid body on a ring base; narrow neck; made of buff clay decorated with black and purple painted decoration: lattice-pattern on body and horizontal bands above and below.
Cultures/periods: Cypro-Archaic II
Production date: 600 BC-475 BC
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
Technique: painted; slipped
Dimensions: Height: 19.70 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (C968); Murray, Smith and Walters 1900 / Excavations in Cyprus (p. 120, Tomb 106; p. 104 fig. 151, 4)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name: From: Turner Bequest Excavations, Amathus
Funder name: Funded by: Emma Tourner Turner
Acquisition date: 1894
Acquisition notes: The vase arrived in the Museum with the rest of the Amathus material in 1894 but was not apparently registered at this time. At some point from 1912 onwards, its BM vase catalogue number seems to have been added to the wrong entry in the GR 1894,11-1. sequence. This was corrected by Don Bailey in 1978 who assigned it the current registration number by adding it to the end of the 1894 sequence.
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1894,1101.739

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