Black-on-Red Lekythos - image 1

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Black-on-Red Lekythos

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

Date

900 - 600 BC

Accession No.

1982,0721.46

Collection

British Museum

Provenance