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Black-on-Red Juglet

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; buff-pink clay with a matt orange slip decorated in black paint: parallel bands around the body and three groups of concentric circles on the shoulder; surface very calcinated. Dimensions: Height: 8.60 centimetres Object Type: juglet; flask Ware: Black-On-Red Ware Series: Black-on-Red I; Black-on-Red II Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Date

900 - 600 BC

Accession No.

1982,0721.44

Collection

British Museum

Provenance