Black-on-Red Lekythos

Black-on-Red Lekythos

Description:

Pottery juglet in Black-on Red ware; wheelmade; baggy conical body on a disc base; narrow neck with ridge just below the upper part of the handle and trumpet mouth; single handle looping from mid-body to neck. Made of fine buff clay covered with a reddish-orange slip and decorated in black paint with concentric circles and bands.


Dimensions: Height: 12.70 centimetres


Object Type: lekythos


Ware: Black-On-Red Ware


Techniques: painted

Period:

Geometric II

Date:

900 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Accession Number:

1982,0721.46