Black-on-Red Oinochoe

Black-on-Red Oinochoe

Description:

Pottery oinochoe or jug in Black-on-Red ware; spherical body on a low base; long narrow neck tapering upwards to a trefoil mouth; two-ribbed handle from shoulder to rim; buff clay with red slip decorated in black paint with intersecting bands and concentrics.


Dimensions: Height: 15.50 centimetres


Object Type: oinochoe


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:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1869,0604.6