Black-on-Red Barrel Jug

Black-on-Red Barrel Jug

Description:

Pottery barrel-shaped jug in Black-on-Red ware; wheel-made; barrel-shaped jug with a narrow neck, central neck-ridge and flaring trumpet mouth; single handle from shoulder to neck-ridge; buff clay and red-orange slip, decorated in black paint: large spiral motif ending in a small nipple on each end of the 'barrel', bands of parallels lines around the body and upper part of neck, large geometric dart motif below the neck, single wavy line around the neck above the ridge, solid handle.


Object Type: barrel jug


Ware: Black-On-Red Ware


Series: Black-on-Red I


Techniques: wheel-made; slipped; painted

Period:

Geometric II

Date:

900 - 750 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Accession Number:

1908,0411.39