White Painted Barrel Juglet

White Painted Barrel Juglet

Description:

Small pottery barrel-shaped juglet in White Painted ware; wheel-made; barrel-shaped body with bosses (or 'nipples') at each flattened; narrow neck flaring to a trumpet mouth; small arching handle from shoulder to neck; buff clay and slip, decorated in black paint: parallel bands around the body with a bull's-eye motif on the bosses, solid neck and handle.


Dimensions: Height: 10.50 centimetres


Object Type: lekythos; juglet


Ware: White Painted Ware


Series: White Painted III


Techniques: painted; slipped

Period:

Geometric II

Date:

900 - 700 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1894,1101.15