Black-on-Red Flask

Black-on-Red Flask

Description:

Pottery flask in Black-on-Red ware; wheel-made; globular body on a ring base; narrow neck with ridge, flaring to a trumpet mouth; two opposing double-ribbed handles; buff clay and matt red slip, decorated with black paint: intersecting bands and concentrics on the body.


Dimensions: Height: 18.40 centimetres


Object Type: flask


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:

1982,0729.326