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Black-on-Red Perfume Flask, Geometric II Cypriot juglet
Black-on-Red Perfume Flask, Geometric II Cypriot, c. 900–600 BC. British Museum, 1982,0729.558.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Black-on-Red ware
Shape
JugJuglet
Decoration
Painted
Material
Clay
Place of production
Cyprus
Date
900 - 600 BC

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Salamis (Cyprus) (?)
  • Gastria (?)
  • Kourion (?)

Identifiers

Accession no.
1982,0729.558, British Museum · Museum record

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