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Black-on-Red Bowl, Archaic I Cypriot, Black-on-Red II
Black-on-Red Bowl, Archaic I Cypriot, Black-on-Red II, c. 750–600 BC. British Museum, 1982,0729.324.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Archaic I

Black-on-Red Bowl

Large pottery bowl in Black-on-Red ware; wheel-made; deep carinated body on a raised ring base (the junction of base and body marked by a shallow groove); flat rim chamfered inwards and slightly everted; pair of opposing triple-rib handles (one now missing); fine orange clay and matt red slip (now much eroded), decorated in black paint: bands of fine concentric circles around the body, inside and out, with a bull's-eye motif in the centre of the interior; group of concentric underneath the base; geometric decoration below each handle with parallel bands across the ribs; surface calcinated and worn in many places; the vessel is cracked inside on the bottom; part of the base is missing. Dimensions: Diameter: 32 centimetres; Height: 10.60 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: Black-On-Red Ware Series: Black-on-Red II Techniques: painted; slipped; wheel-made

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Black-on-Red wareBlack-on-Red II (IV)
Shape
BowlCarinated bowl
Decoration
Painted
Motifs
Concentric circles, Bands and lines
Material
Clay
Period
probablyIron AgeCypro-Archaic
Date
750 - 600 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Kourion

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Kourion

Identifiers

Accession no.
1982,0729.324, British Museum · Museum record

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