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Red Slip Lekythos, Archaic I Cypriot
Red Slip Lekythos, Archaic I Cypriot, c. 750–500 BC. British Museum, 1982,0729.4.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Archaic I

Red Slip Lekythos

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

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Red Slip ware (Iron Age)
Shape
JugLekythos
Material
Clay
Period
probablyIron AgeCypro-Archaic
Date
750 - 500 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Salamis

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Salamis (Cyprus)

Identifiers

Accession no.
1982,0729.4, British Museum · Museum record

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