Red/Black Grooved Jug

Red/Black Grooved Jug

Description:

Small pottery jug in Red/Black Slip Grooved Ware; wheel-made; depressed globular body no a rounded base; narrow concave neck with a plain everted rim; single handle from shoulder to rim; decorated with horizontal grooves around the body from the base of the neck to just above the base, grooves inside the neck as well; made of buff clay covered with a thin slip, fired red on the upper body and black or red below; slip worn in places.


Dimensions: Height: 6.60 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Techniques: slipped; wheel-made

Period:

Archaic

Date:

750 - 475 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1894,1101.567