Black-on-Red Dish

Black-on-Red Dish

Description:

Pottery dish or bowl in Black-on-Red ware; wheel-made; wide, somewhat carinated body on a turned, but slighly rounded base; sligh inturning rim; pair of opposing horizontal loop handles; buff micaceous clay with similar slip, decorated in purple-brown paint: large spiral inside surrounded by a broad band, outside is a band of fine parallel lines with broader bands on the rim and base, solid handles.


Dimensions: Diameter: 18 centimetres; Height: 5 centimetres


Object Type: dish


Ware: White Painted Ware


Series: White Painted IV


Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Aradhippou

Accession Number:

1880,0710.13