Black-on-Red Aryballos, Geometric II Cypriot
Black-on-Red Aryballos, Geometric II Cypriot, c. 900–600 BC. British Museum, 1982,0726.50.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Geometric II

Black-on-Red Aryballos

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

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Decoration
Painted
Material
Clay
Place of production
Cyprus
Date
900 - 600 BC

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Accession No.

1982,0726.50

Collection

Provenance

  • Cyprus

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