Black-on-Red Aryballos

Black-on-Red Aryballos

Description:

Pottery aryballos (juglet) in Black-on-Red ware; wheel-made; globular body with a broad flat base; narrow neck with ridge, flaring to a trumpet mouth; small arching handle from shoulder to ridge; buff clat with bright red slip, decorated in black paint: bands around the neck and mouth, fine lines around the body, groups of small concentric circles on the shoulder, solid paint on handle.


Dimensions: Height: 9 centimetres


Object Type: aryballos; juglet


Ware: Black-On-Red Ware


Series: Black-on-Red I


Techniques: painted; slipped; wheel-made

Period:

Geometric II

Date:

900 - 700 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1894,1101.17