Black-on-Red Aryballos

Black-on-Red Aryballos

Description:

Pottery Black-on-Red ware aryballos or perfume flask; globular body with a flat base; narrow neck with ridge flaring to an everted rim; handle arching from shoulder to the neck-ridge; pink-buff clay with a thin reddish burnished slip decorated with black banded decoration on the body, pair of concentric circles on the shoulder, solid handle.


Dimensions: Height: 8 centimetres


Object Type: aryballos; 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:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1982,0726.50