Black-on-Red Barrel Jug

Black-on-Red Barrel Jug

Description:

Pottery barrel-shaped juglet in Black-on-Red ware; wheel-made; barrel-shaped body with bosses ('nipples') at each end; narrow neck with ridge, flaring to a very large trumpet mouth; pair of opposing arching handles from shoulder to neck ridge; buff clay and polished red slip, decorated with dull black paint: bands of concentric lines around the ends of the vase, with a bull's-eye motif at the bosses, complex dark motif beneath each handle, short parallel bars on the handles, broad and narrow bands on the neck and mouth.


Dimensions: Diameter: 10 centimetres


Object Type: flask; juglet


Ware: Black-On-Red Ware


Series: Black-on-Red I


Techniques: slipped; painted; wheel-made

Period:

Geometric II

Date:

900 - 700 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1894,1101.388