Black-On-Red Flask

Black-On-Red Flask

Description:

Pottery juglet or flask in Black-on-Red ware; wheel-made; globular body on a turned base, slightly concave underneath; narrow neck with central ridge, flaring outwards to a trumpet mouth; buff-brown clay and red glossy slip, decorated with black paint: concentric bands on the body, groups of concentric circles arranged around the shoulder, single bands on the neck; restored from sherds.


Dimensions: Height: 12 centimetres


Object Type: juglet; flask


Ware: Black-On-Red Ware


Series: Black-on-Red IV


Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Aradhippou

Accession Number:

1880,0710.7