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Black-On-Red Juglet

Pottery juglet or perfume flask in Black-on-Red ware; globular body with a narrow neck flaring to a trumpet mouth; flat base; arching handle from shoulder to neck-ridge; buff-pink clay with an orange-red slip decorated in black paint: bands on the body and neck, a pair of concentric circles on the shoulder opposite the handle; surface pock-marked and calcinated. Dimensions: Height: 9.80 centimetres Object Type: juglet Ware: Black-On-Red Ware Series: Black-on-Red I; Black-on-Red II Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Date

900 - 600 BC

Accession No.

1908,0411.23

Collection

British Museum

Provenance