amphora
- Museum number
- 1908,0411.16
- Description
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Pottery amphoriskos in Black-on-Red ware; wheel-made; depressed ovoid body on a rolled, ring base; wide cylindrical neck with a flat, everted rim; pair of opposing loop handles from shoulder to rim; buff clay with a deep lustrous red slip, decorated in black paint: parallel horizontal bands on the body and isolated concentric circles.
- Production date
- 900BC-750BC
- Curator's comments
- See SCE IV/2, fig. XXVI, 2 for a comparable shape. Schreiber 2003 provides a comprehensive modern overview of the ware with suggested revisions of the dating.
Bibliography:
Schreiber N. 2003, The Cypro-Phoenician pottery of the Iron Age (Leiden: Brill)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1908
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired by purchase; EA register contains no other provenance details.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1908,0411.16
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: EA 47990
