Black-On-Red Barrel Flask

Black-On-Red Barrel Flask

Description:

Pottery barrel flask or juglet in Black-on-Red ware; barrel-shaped body with nipple-like bosses at each end; narrow neck and flaring trumpet mouth; arching handle from shoulder to neck-ridge; pink-buff clay and an orange-red slip decorated in black paint: bands encircling the body and neck barrel flask, dark motifs below the handle and mouth.


Dimensions: Height: 7.20 centimetres


Object Type: flask


Ware: Black-On-Red Ware


Series: Black-on-Red I


Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Period:

Geometric II

Date:

900 - 700 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Gastria (?)

Kourion (?)

Accession Number:

1982,0729.562