Archaic II
Black-On-Red Ware Jug
Pottery jug in Black-on-Red ware; wheel-made; globular body on a conical ring base; tall thin neck, tapering upwards to a trefoil spout; single handle from shoulder to mouth; made of fairly fine buff clay with a red slip and black painted decorated: large concentric circles on both side of the vase; surface worn in places. Dimensions: Height: 17.50 centimetres Object Type: jug Ware: Black-On-Red Ware Series: Black-on-Red III Techniques: painted; wheel-made; slipped
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Decoration
- Painted
- Motif
- Concentric circles
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- probablyIron AgeCypro-ArchaicCypro-Archaic II
- Date
- 600 - 475 BC
- Findspot
- Amathus
Also recorded as
A museum record
British Museum, 1894,1101.522 (“jug”)From Amathus, BM Tomb 178
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