Brown Pottery Juglet - image 1

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Brown Pottery Juglet

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)

Date

850 - 750 BC

Accession No.

EA68857

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Naukratis (?)