Bichrome Aryballos Flask

Bichrome Aryballos Flask

Description:

Pottery aryballos or flask in Bichrome ware; globular body with slightly concave, disc base; concave neck with central ridge and flaring, flat rim; narrow mouth; vertical strap handle from shoulder to ridge; buff clay with thick cream-white slip; decorated in black-purple and red paint; on each side of the handle, three vertical concentric red bands in frame a smaller set of concentric lines in the middle; three similar concentrics in a vertical line below the neck; black parallel lines on the neck with a solid black band on the handle; red-purple paint on and beneath the rim.


Dimensions: Height: 10.50 centimetres check


Object Type: aryballos; flask


Ware: Bichrome Ware (Bichrome IV)


Techniques: painted; slipped; wheel-made

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Kourion

Accession Number:

1896,0201.288