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; orange-buff clay with a matt, red-orange polished slip; decorated in black paint with parallel bands on the body, a ladder pattern on the handle and a single cluster of concentric circles on the shoulder.


Dimensions: Height: 7.40 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:

1982,0729.212