Enkomi Digitisation Project

A1646

Object type
Amphora
Tomb No (findspot)
A1646
Ware
Mycenaean style
Chronology
1300-1200 B.C.
Dimensions
Height: 43cm
Diameter: 30cm (rim)
Bibliography
CVA 1, 7, pl.8.1-4
Karageorghis and Vermeule 1982, 200
Preservation
Missing, Famagusta Museum
Fabric Description
Not available.

Description
Out-turning rim, concave neck, piriform body, wide foot, flat handles from rim to neck.

Decoration
Rim painted with groups of parallel strokes, solid paint on neck, handles and foot. A chariot group to the right, filled in with painted discs surrounded by dots in a circle, a human figure guiding the horses dressed in a tunic filled in with wavy lines; spirals in the field and same pattern is repeated on the other side; Below a triple band and a single band on lower part, in reddish paint.