Black-On-Red Globular Jug

Black-On-Red Globular Jug

Description:

Large pottery jug in Black-on-Red ware; wheel-made; globular body on a ring base; tall narrow neck with a trefoil mouth; double-rib handle from shoulder to rim; buff clay and lustrous red slip, decorated in matt black paint: large bands of concentric lines on each side of the body framing a central bull's eye motif surrounded by smaller groups of concentrics, a horizontal band of concentric lines runs around the shoulder, below the spout in the resultant frame is a motif of three intersecting lines surrounded by small groups of concentrics, bands on the neck, ladder pattern on the neck.


Dimensions: Height: 27.70 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Ware: Black-On-Red Ware


Series: Black-on-Red IV


Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Kourion

Accession Number:

1982,0729.317