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Rare Cypro-Phoenician Bichrome Jar or dinos 930-586 BC browse these categories for related items... All Items: Holy Land: Phoenician: Pre AD 1000: item #667363 Please refer to our stock #P.791 when inquiring.
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| Wheel made, very attractive bichrome ware jar or Dinos { in Greek } most probably used as mixing bowl. Slightly elongated globular body tapering to a tooled ring-like base, exterior body base is convex, short straight neck, two loop handles. Decoration: Cream slip? over the body and down inside the neck. Black and reddish brown painted decoration. Black encircling band inside the top of the neck and just over the top of the rim; Back circular motifs , around the body lines and bands in red and black. Bichrome ware , with its distinctive red and black decoration and white slip probably is the most beautiful in ancient pottery. Very good condition Intact: minor chipping on lip. Date Iron Age II 930 – 586 BC. Cypro-Phoenician Imported to the Holy Land from in ancient times. Found in near Hebron. Height: 16.1 cm - Max. Diameter: 22.1 cm. Int. Rim Diameter: 10.3 cm. Base Diameter: 7.6 cm. Price including: Certificate of Authenticity, Shipping “one week delivery, door to door, and Export approval from the antiquities authority in Israel . Questions ??… Ask Sami: Toll Free No: 1-866-420-4833.from U.S.A. to Jerusalem. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF REFERENCES: . 1-Harvard University -The Cesnola Collection, Semitic Museum . 2-University at Albany Cypriot Collection. **The Phoenicians were renowned sailors and traders, and already by about 900BCE had set up trading colonies throughout the Mediterranean. **During the Iron II period (925-587/6), from the division of the United Monarchy to the fall of the Judean Kingdom to the Babylonians, the political separation produced clear distinctions in the regional pottery types, generally known as “Samaria” and “Judean” ware. During most of this period the northern pottery exhibits the higher standard of workmanship. Most prominent in imported ware up to 700 B.C. is the Cypro-Phoenician ware. From 700 to 500 B.C. imports of Assyrian origin resulted in local potters copying Assyrian prototypes. ** Ac 11:19 So then those who were scattered because of the persecution that occurred in connection with Stephen made their way to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews alone. | |||||||||
