Black Slip Cantharos

Black Slip Cantharos

Description:

Two-handled drinking cup (cantharos) in Black Slip ware; wheel-made; biconical body on a flaring ring base; tall cylindrical neck with an everted rim; pair of opposing loop handles; body decorated with vertical ridges; made of sandy buff clay covered with a black slip; base and rim chipped, surface worn in many places.


Dimensions: Height: 14 centimetres


Object Type: cup


Ware: Black Slip Ware


Series: Black Slip I (?); Black Slip II (?)


Techniques: wheel-made; slipped

Period:

Geometric I

Date:

1050 - 900 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1894,1101.548