Black-on-Red Bowl

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