Zoomorphic Handle Bowl

Zoomorphic Handle Bowl

Description:

Large pottery bowl in Black-on-Red ware with zoomorphic handles; deep, slightly carinated body on a high ring base; slight concavity on the plain rim; two opposing handles, double-arched with a ram's head in the middle; buff-pink fabric and dark red slip (worn in many places), decorated in black paint: banded decoration on the exterior and inside just below the rim, handles also painted; the body of the vase has been distorted in firing.


Dimensions: Diameter: 30.50 centimetres; Height: 11.50 centimetres


Object Type: bowl


Ware: Black-On-Red Ware


Series: Black-on-Red II


Techniques: painted; slipped; wheel-made

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Achna

Accession Number:

1883,0106.109