Black-on-Red Lekythos

Black-on-Red Lekythos

Description:

Pottery lekythos or juglet in Black-on-red ware; wheelmade; elongated conical body with rounded base, bulging biconical neck and trefoil mouth (possibly originally decorated with eyes); handle (now missing) from neck to rim; buff clay and red slip, decorated with black paint: bands around the neck and mouth, fine parallel lines around the body.


Dimensions: Height: 12.50 centimetres


Object Type: lekythos; flask


Ware: Black-On-Red Ware


Series: Black-on-Red II


Techniques: slipped; painted; wheel-made

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1894,1101.443