Bichrome Red Lekythos

Bichrome Red Lekythos

Description:

Pottery lekythos or juglet in Bichrome Red ware; wheel-made; slightly baggy body with a carinated lower part, on a low disc base; narrow biconical neck with a ridge; flat mushroom lip; small handle from shoulder to neck ridge; orange clay and red-orange slip, decorated in black and white paint: columns of concentric circles on the body, black bands on the neck and lip, white dots added to the black bands on the neck surface worn, lower part of body repaired.


Dimensions: Height: 16 centimetres


Object Type: lekythos; juglet


Ware: Bichrome Red Ware (Bichrome Red I (IV))


Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Kourion

Accession Number:

1982,0729.339