
Black-on-Red Bowl
Description: | Pottery bowl in Black-on-Red ware; wheel-made; deep hemispherical body on a low ring base; pair of opposing loop handles; orange clay and matt red slip, decorated with thin matt black paint: bands of narrow parallel lines around the body, concentric circles on the shoulder beneath the rim, leaf (?) motifs below each handle, solid bands on the rim and foot; surface worn in places with small chips from the rim. Dimensions: Diameter: 23.80 centimetres; Height: 13.40 centimetres Object Type: 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: | Kourion |
Accession Number: | 1982,0729.333 |