Black-on-Red Juglet

Black-on-Red Juglet

Description:

Pottery juglet or perfume flask in Black-on-Red ware; globular body with a narrow neck and flaring trumpet mouth; arching handle from shoulder to neck-ridge; flat base; buff-pink clay with an orange slip decorated in black paint: parallel bands around the body and a single group of concentric circles on the shoulder; surface heavily calcinated.


Dimensions: Height: 5.90 centimetres


Object Type: juglet; flask


Ware: Black-On-Red Ware


Series: Black-on-Red I; Black-on-Red II


Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Period:

Geometric II

Date:

900 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Gastria

Accession Number:

1982,0729.206