Brown Pottery Juglet

Brown Pottery Juglet

Description:

Small brown pottery juglet with drop-shaped body, possible imitation of the Cypriot Black-on-Red ware; short neck with neck-ridge, probably flaring to a funnel-shaped mouth (now damaged); thick handle from shoulder to neck-ridge; red clay and fugitive buff-coloured slip, decorated in black paint: three narrow lines at lower part of shoulder.


Dimensions: Diameter: 2.50 centimetres neck ; Height: 7.80 centimetres max ; Width: 6.10 centimetres max


Object Type: juglet


Ware: Black-On-Red Ware (Imitation of)


Techniques: slipped; painted


Condition: fair (rim damaged and whole worn)

Period:

Geometric III

Date:

850 - 750 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Naukratis (?)

Accession Number:

EA68857