
Archaic I
Black-On-Red Lekythos
Pottery two-handled perfume flask or lekythos in Black-on-Red ware; wheel-made; globular body on a flat base; narrow neck with ridge, flaring to a trumpet mouth; pair of opposing arching handles from shoulder to neck ridge; buff clay and bright red slip, decorated in black paint: solid bands on mouth and neck, bands of fine parallel lines around the shoulder with groups of large and small concentrics on body and shoulder. Dimensions: Diameter: 4.40 centimetres; Height: 13 centimetres Object Type: perfume-flask; lekythos Ware: Black-On-Red Ware Series: Black-on-Red II Techniques: wheel-made; slipped; painted
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Decoration
- Painted
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- probablyIron AgeCypro-ArchaicCypro-Archaic I
- Date
- 750 - 600 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
- Findspot
- Amathus
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