Black-On-Red Juglet

Black-On-Red Juglet

Description:

Pottery black-on-red ware juglet or perfume flask; globular body with a flaring trumpet mouth; flat base; arched handle from shoulder to neck-ridge; pink-buff clay covered with a matt orange-red burnished slip and decorated with black paint: bands around the body and neck, ladder pattern on the handle and a single swastika on the shoulder; surface very worn or blackened.


Dimensions: Height: 8 centimetres


Object Type: juglet; 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:

Gastria

Accession Number:

1982,0729.215