Black-on-Red Juglet

Black-on-Red Juglet

Description:

Pottery juglet or perfume flask in Black-on-Red ware; ovoid-globular body with a narrow neck and flaring trumpet mouth; flat base; arching handle from shoulder to neck-ridge; pink-buff clay with an orange-red matt slip, decorated in black paint: parallel bands around the body and a single group of concentric circles on the shoulder.


Dimensions: Height: 8.60 centimetres


Object Type: juglet


Ware: Black-On-Red Ware


Series: Black-on-Red I; Black-on-Red II


Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Period:

Geometric II

Date:

900 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Accession Number:

1908,0411.26