Cypriot Red and Black Juglet

Cypriot Red and Black Juglet

Description:

Cypriot pottery juglet with frontal spout, decorated in red and black, horizontal bands on neck and body, red triangle around and including spout, framed in black and flanked by pair of black eyes with brows, red spot below each; further round, on shoulder on each side, pattern of three fanned strokes in red; coarse light brown/salmon clay (coarse marl clay?), gritty with many coarse white inclusions visible on surface.


Dimensions: Diameter: 7.80 centimetres max ; Diameter: 3.40 centimetres rim ; Height: 9.40 centimetres; Thickness: 0.40 centimetres rim ; Width: 9.40 centimetres max


Object Type: juglet


Techniques: painted


Condition: Fair

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 475 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Naukratis

Accession Number:

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