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 |