Name:	Cypriot Amphora with Foot
Picture:
Description:	H. 20cm. The paint has chipped away in some areas, especially on the handles and around the mouth, and a greyish-brown accretion covers most of one side of the neck. Part of the foot is missing. Reddish clay, with decoration in dull black paint. Bichrome amphora with wide mouth, two vertical handles from shoulder to rim and a globular body resting on a foot. The inside of the mouth is painted with a wide red band and narrower black bands. The handles appear to have been rimmed in black paint. At the neck a wavy line, only partially visible due to accretion. The neck and belly are decorated with black bands. The base of the foot is painted black.
Date:	Early Cypriot-Geometric, c. 1000 B.C.
Discussion:	ee Cambridge pieces, Fitzwilliam Museum 92.77, 92.78, 92.84; CVA 2, pl. xi from Tamassos, for similar shape and design; British Museum C 753, CVA 2, pls. 17, 18.