Black-on-Red Juglet - image 1

Archaic I

Black-on-Red Juglet

Pottery juglet in Black-on-Red ware; wheel-made; tall conical body with a carinated lower part on a flat base; flaring trumpet mouth; pronounced ridge at the junction of body and neck; single loop handle from mid-body to below neck-ridge; made of fine buff clay covered with a lustrous red slip decorated with black paint: bands of horizontal lines around the body, solid bands on the neck; rim chipped, surface worn and blackened (possibly from firing). Dimensions: Height: 7.50 centimetres Object Type: juglet Ware: Black-On-Red Ware Series: Black-on-Red II Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Date

750 - 600 BC

Accession No.

1894,1101.566

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Amathus