Black-On-Red Ware Jar

Black-On-Red Ware Jar

Description:

Pottery Black-on-Red ware jar; biconical body on a raised base; short concave neck with flat everted rim; pait of opposing double-ribbed handles from shoulder to rim (spool-like projections at the join). Made of buff-orange clay with a lustrous dark red-orange slip, decorated with black paint: bands around the body; panelled decoration around shoulder filled with lozenges, chevrons and swastikas; bars on handles.


Dimensions: Height: 10.30 centimetres


Object Type: jar


Ware: Black-On-Red Ware


Techniques: painted

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1982,0726.40