Red Slip Phiale

Red Slip Phiale

Description:

Pottery plate in Red Slip ware; wheel-made; carinated body on a solid raised base; wide, flat everted rim, pierced twice for suspension; orange-red clay and traces of a red slip; the catalogue records traces of red, black and yellow painted decoration but these are no longer visible; repaired.


Dimensions: Diameter: 12 centimetres


Object Type: phiale


Ware: Red Slip Ware (Cyprus)


Techniques: pierced; painted; slipped; wheel-made

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Kourion

Accession Number:

1896,0201.55