White Painted Amphoriskos - image 1

Late Bronze Age III

White Painted Amphoriskos

Pottery amphoriskos in White Painted ware; wheel-made; globular-biconical body on a conical foot; tall cylindrical neck flaring to an everted rim; pair of opposing loop handles; buff clay and buff-cream slip, decorated in dull black-brown paint: parallel bands and solid blocks of paint on the body, wavy line between the handles, latticed triangles on the shoulder. Dimensions: Height: 17.30 centimetres Object Type: jar; amphoriskos Ware: White Painted Ware Series: White Painted I Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Date

1100 - 1000 BC

Accession No.

1982,0729.319

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Kourion