Red Slip Lekythos

Red Slip Lekythos

Description:

Pottery lekythos or flask in Red Slip ware; wheel-made; baggy ovoid body on a low ring base enclosing a raised disc; carinated shoulder, narrowing to a neck with a central ridge; flat, everted rim (partly missing); small arching handle from shoulder to neck-ridge; buff clay with a dark red slip, worn away or fired black in many places; small hole in the lower body; surface also heavily calcinated and denting, probably in the kiln during firing.


Dimensions: Height: 14.20 centimetres


Object Type: lekythos; flask


Ware: Red Slip Ware (Cyprus)


Series: Red Slip II (?); Red Slip III (?)


Techniques: slipped; wheel-made

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 500 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Salamis (Cyprus)

Accession Number:

1982,0729.4