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Black-on-Red Juglet

Pottery Black-on Red/Birchome Red ware juglet; wheel-made; baggy ovoid body on a slightly concave disc base; narrow neck with trefoil mouth; single handle from shoulder to mouth. Made of fine buff clay covered with a reddish-orange slip and decorated with black paint: horizontal bands around the body and neck (the latter has a line of dots in added white); band around the rim and along the handle; three sets of concentric circles around the. Surface accreted with a white deposit. Dimensions: Height: 12.50 centimetres Object Type: jug Ware: Black-On-Red Ware; Bichrome Red Ware Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Date

900 - 600 BC

Accession No.

1982,0721.43

Collection

British Museum

Provenance