Black-On-Red Lekythos

Black-On-Red Lekythos

Description:

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

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1894,1101.387