Black-On-Red Lekythos - image 1

Geometric III

Black-On-Red Lekythos

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

Date

850 - 600 BC

Accession No.

1982,0729.214

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Gastria