Black-On-Red Lekythos

Black-On-Red Lekythos

Description:

Pottery black-on-red ware lekythos/aryballos or perfume flask; globular body with a narrow neck and flaring, trumpet-mouth; neck-ridge; flat base; buff clay with matt orange-red burnished slip; decorated in black paint with parallel bands, a wavy single wavy line below the neck-ridge and a ladder pattern on the handle.


Dimensions: Height: 7.70 centimetres


Object Type: lekythos; aryballos


Ware: Black-On-Red Ware


Series: Black-on-Red I; Black-on-Red II


Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Period:

Geometric III

Date:

850 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Gastria

Accession Number:

1982,0729.214