Bichrome Bull's-Eye Juglet

Bichrome Bull's-Eye Juglet

Description:

Pottery aryballos or juglet in Bichrome ware; spherical body on a flat base; narrow biconcave neck with neck-ridge flaring to a mushroom lip; small arching handle from shoulder to neck-ridge; reddish-buff clay and slip, decorated with red and black paint: concentric circles on the sides with a central bull's-eye motif; rings on the neck, red paint on inside and outside of mouth; complex arrow-head motif on body.


Dimensions: Height: 10.80 centimetres


Object Type: aryballos; juglet


Ware: Bichrome Ware (Bichrome IV)


Techniques: painted; slipped; wheel-made

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1880,0710.84