Black-On-Red Dish

Black-On-Red Dish

Description:

Pottery dish or bowl in Black-on-Red ware; wheel-made; carinated body on a turned ring base; vertical rim; pair of opposing horizontal loop handles; orange-buff micaceous clay and red slip, decorated in black paint: band of parallel lines on the exterior and interior, two small circles on the centre of the base, solid handles; surface very worn, especially inside.


Dimensions: Diameter: 18 centimetres; Height: 6.30 centimetres


Object Type: dish; bowl


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:

Aradhippou

Accession Number:

1880,0710.12