Black-On-Red Aryballos

Black-On-Red Aryballos

Description:

Pottery aryballos or jug in Black-on-Red ware; wheel-made; squat globular body on a broad, flat base; narrow neck with ridge, flaring to a trumpet mouth; single arching handle from shoulder to neck ridge; buff clay and red slip, decorated in black paint: ladder pattern on handle, fine bands around the body, three swastikas on shoulder.


Dimensions: Height: 6 centimetres


Object Type: aryballos


Ware: Black-On-Red Ware


Series: Black-on-Red I


Techniques: painted; slipped; wheel-made

Period:

Geometric II

Date:

900 - 750 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1894,1101.3