
Geometric II
Black-on-Red Perfume Flask
Pottery perfume flaks or juglet in Black-on-Red ware; globular body with a flat base; narrow neck with ridge flaring to a trumpet-shaped mouth; handle arching from shoulder to the neck-ridge; pink-buff clay with a thin reddish burnished slip decorated with black banded decoration (surface very worn with large chips from the body and rim). Dimensions: Height: 8.60 centimetres Object Type: flask; 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.
1982,0729.558
Collection
British Museum
Provenance
- Salamis (Cyprus) (?)
- Gastria (?)
- Kourion (?)