Black-on-Red Amphoriskos

Black-on-Red Amphoriskos

Description:

Pottery Black-on-Red ware amphoriskos (small jar); wheel-made; made of fine pink-buff clay covered with a lustrous red slip and decored in black paint with concentric circles and bands.


Dimensions: Height: 11.30 centimetres


Object Type: amphoriskos


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:

Salamis (Cyprus) (?)

Kition (?)

Accession Number:

1881,0824.61