amphora

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Object Type: amphora
Museum number: 1894,1101.99
Description: Small pottery amphora in Bichrome ware; wheel-made; ovoid body on a raised base; upward-sloping handles; buff slip; black and purple decoration including panels of lattice and flowers round body and ivy-wreath round neck.
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 D, tomb 37
Materials: pottery
Ware: Bichrome Ware
Type series: Bichrome V
Technique: painted; slipped
Dimensions: Diameter: 5.50 centimetres (mouth); Height: 17.20 centimetres
Curator's comments: For the shape and variety of decoration in this class of Bichrome Ware, probably made in Amathus, see SCE IV/2, fig. L, nos 10-14 and fig. LI, no. 1.
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (C965)
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: 1894,1101.99

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