Black-on-Red Juglet

Black-on-Red Juglet

Description:

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

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1894,1101.566