Black-on-Red Juglet

Black-on-Red Juglet

Description:

Pottery juglet or perfume flask in Black-on-Red ware; globular body with a narrow neck and flaring trumpet mouth; arching handle from shoulder to neck-ridge; flat base; pink-buff clay with orange-red polished slip, decorated in black paint: parallel bands around the body and concentric circles on the shoulder; surface pock-marked in many places, part of the mouth is missing.


Dimensions: Height: 9.20 centimetres


Object Type: juglet; flask


Ware: Black-On-Red Ware


Series: Black-on-Red II


Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Period:

Geometric II

Date:

900 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus (?)

Limassol (city) (?)

Accession Number:

1880,0710.87