Pear-shaped amphora

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

The body is pear-shaped and it fits on the top of the edge with an oblique, slightly flattened rim. The base is flat and distinct. Two large symmetrical and opposed ribbon handles link the fullest part of the body to the almost median portion of the rim. The surface is painted with red fading paint. Above, there is a black painted decoration.

It is divided into two large sections in the two halves of the vessel along the axis. There is a central spared metope on the rim on a totally black painted deep end; it presents a simple horizontal line wobbled in the upper three-quarters. This line is hooked to two linear and vertical elements. There is a great central metope on the body, framed by two couples of thin vertical and lateral lines inside and by two vertical bands outside.

At the centre of the metope there is an element with the shape of a butterfly overlapping a rhombus. This element is surrounded top and bottom by two pairs of parallel and horizontal segments. On the other half there would have been the same decor. There is a total black background framing two metopes covered with a big X.